Practice Management News

In this video exclusive, Leonard Calabrese, DO, chief medical editor of Healio Rheumatology, highlights what he describes as “an outstanding roundtable” in the June issue on advanced practice providers’ expanding role in rheumatology care.

This month’s featured roundtable on the evolving and broadening role of advanced practice providers in rheumatologic care is a timely discussion, and I give a big thanks to Carrie Beach, BSN, RN-BC; Jeffrey Curtis, MD, MS, MPH; Amanda Mixon, PA-C; Kenneth G. Saag, MD; and Christine Stamatos, DNP, ANP-C.

The number, and role, of advanced practice providers in rheumatology care is exploding.

The concept of delayed gratification has been ingrained in us throughout medical school and residency. This mentality can sometimes lead to explosive spending as an attending when one enjoys a significant salary boost.

Skin manifestations are common in VEXAS syndrome and evaluating their presentations can assist in genotyping the disease and possibly lead to better diagnoses, according to a study.

The Council for Medical Specialty Societies, or CMSS, announced the launch of a new initiative that aims to reduce clinicians’ reliance on race in clinical decision-making and patient harms.

A possible genetic rationale for why women acquire more autoimmune diseases than men has been discovered, according to findings published recently in Cell.

New survey results from the AMA illustrate the burden of prior authorization, with many physicians reporting that it leads to serious patient harms, delays care, reduces work productivity and more.

A patient with lupus nephritis treated with KYV-101, a chimeric antigen receptor T-cell immunotherapy, saw their disease return 5 months after initially showing a response to the treatment, according to the manufacturer.

The goal of a new EULAR initiative linking trial centers across Europe is quicker, more efficient clinical trials across the spectrum of rheumatic diseases, according to a speaker at the EULAR 2024 Congress.