Four of five U.S. hospitals and four in 10 physician practices will take advantage of as much as $27 billion in federal incentives to establish electronic health records systems, according to a survey by the… Read More

Following passage of the Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010—which President Obama signed on Dec. 15—the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) adjusted its calculations of the 2011 Medicare payment rates that had… Read More

Introduction

Most physicians strive to work ethically, render high-quality medical care to their patients, and submit proper claims for payment. Society places enormous trust in physicians, and rightly so. Trust is at the core of… Read More

CMS has provided the AMA with additional data on its 2011 GPCI proposal and asked that AMA distribute it to the medical societies. CMS states that this includes the relevant relative value unit (RVU) files… Read More

ACP President Nick Morrison and ACP Board members Diana Neuhardt and Dr. Mel Rosenblatt contributed this foreword to the 8 page insert.  Among the articles in the insert:  Advanced Treatments (Learn the ABCs of Your… Read More

Cafémom ( http://www.cafemom.com/ ) has more than 120,000 moms in its community.  They’ve expressed interested in ACP to write a guest blog post, which has been done.  In addition, Connecting Women conducted a radio interview… Read More

New Help to Free Legs From a Web

By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS

ACP President, Dr. Nick Morrison; ACP Board Member, Diana Neuhardt, RVT, MBA; ACP Immediate Past President, Dr. Robert J. Min; and Dr. Robert… Read More

The CDC is offering a funding opportunity seeking proposals that will gather VTE data, specifically “targeted surveillance efforts with the ability to link, evaluate, and collect data that can objectively capture outpatient, inpatient, and death-related… Read More

CHICAGO, April 21, 2010 – The American Medical Association (AMA) today launched a new online resource that will help thousands of physicians file claims in the record-breaking settlement reached in the AMA legal victory against… Read More

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, H.R. 3590, was signed into law by President Obama earlier today. This bill—with provisions that originated in the U.S. Senate and were passed by the U.S. House of… Read More