American College Of Rheumatology

In this Healio video exclusive, Leonard H. Calabrese, DO, chief medical editor of Healio Rheumatology, highlighted recent coverage of the rise in physician union membership, as well as Congress’s latest stopgap funding measure.

The U.S. spending bill recently signed into law, which prevented a government shutdown but failed to address CMS reimbursement concerns and slashed arthritis research funds, has drawn the ire of the American College of Rheumatology.

Prior authorization reforms, increased biosimilar access and the future of the Medicare drug price negotiation program are among the American College of Rheumatology’s top concerns in a letter recently submitted to CMS.

Twelve years is a long time by most measures, but in a field has rapidly changing as lupus nephritis research, it may as well be an eternity.

Rheumatologists report largely adhering to American College of Rheumatology guidelines for gout management, but show notable divergence with the recommended dosages of urate-lowering therapies, according to survey data.

Although artificial intelligence presents “exciting opportunities,” its use in patient care “must be regulated” to address biases in decision making, said newly appointed American College of Rheumatology President Carol Langford, MD, MHS.

Money talks. And in the world of medicine, what it has to say has important implications for patients and providers alike.

I have just returned and am recovering from #ACR24, and although there is a universe of things happening in our field, I want to focus for a moment on a rare, marginalized disease with a patient population desperately seeking effective care.

WASHINGTON — Rising rates of ACR20 response in the placebo arms of rheumatoid arthritis trials may be related to increasingly globalized recruitment patterns, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2024.