Practice Management News

PHILADELPHIA — Gail R. Wilensky, PhD, an economist and senior fellow at Project Hope, said that health care is not likely to play a central role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as she delivered the Dr. Raymond C. Grandon Lecture at Jefferson University Hospital today.

The American College of Physicians has named Darilyn V. Moyer, MD, FACP, as its new executive vice president and CEO, according to a press release from the organization.

An intervention that changed default prescribing to dispense generic medications led to significantly increased overall generic prescribing rates, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Researchers estimated that an extra $73 billion was spent on brand-name drugs between 2010 and 2012, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

WASHINGTON — Through the work of Wayne J. Riley, MD, MPH, MBA, MACP, immediate past-president, and other leaders at the American College of Physicians, the organization has made great strides that Nitin S. Damle, MD, MS, FACP, ACP President, plans to continue, he said at a press conference at the annual ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

The American Board of Internal Medicine plans to offer a new Maintenance of Certification examination option in January 2018, according to a press release issued by the organization.

The American College of Physicians and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine have issued a policy paper outlining recommendations for aligning graduate medical education funding with health care workforce needs.

The AMA and the American College of Physicians have announced their support of a proposal to modernize Medicare payments.

In 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid implemented the Conditions of Participation policy to establish expectations for liver transplant facilities that treat Medicare-insured patients. However, a new study shows that since then, more liver transplant patients on the waitlist have been delisted at a faster rate and 1-year posttransplant survival rates have only risen slightly.

Climate change poses a significant threat to public health and needs to be addressed by drastic actions in part by physicians and the health care community, according to the American College of Physicians.