Aligning PQRS with Meaningful Use CQMs in 201 The Philadelphia Regional Office of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be hosting an encore presentation of the “Aligning PQRS…
On April 8, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posted searchable, physician-specific Medicare claims data on its web site. The spreadsheet files show for each physician their NPI,…
This week, the House Rules Committee posted legislation that would temporarily patch the 24% SGR cut scheduled for April 1. While the legislation includes several provisions the ACC has advocated…
Call or visit your members of Congress in their home offices next week during the Congressional recess! Even if you’ve already sent an email or made a phone call, NOW…
On Friday, March 14, by a vote of 238 to 181, the House of Representatives passed an amended version of H.R. 4015, the “SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization…
TO: Physicians If you are involved in a community-based health care program that is in need of funding, you may be interested in the following PA Department of Health’s Bureau…
Call your member of Congress using the AMA’s toll-free grassroots hotline: 1-800-833-6354 Send you legislators an urgent message through the FixMedicareNow.org action center: http://fixmedicarenow.org/physician-action
PCMS NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT 2014 The following is the slate which the PCMS Nominating Committee will present to the PCMS Board of Directors on Thursday, March 13, 2014 for the…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the original planned date by which all physicians who are attesting for Medicare Meaningful Use in 2013 has been extended…
Section by Section Summary_FINAL_10AM_v2 (2) Staff for the chairmen and ranking minority members of the three Congressional committees of jurisdiction briefed physician groups this afternoon on the results of their…
The debate continues over medical marijuana legalization as it reaches Pennsylvania. Senate Bill 1182, a bipartisan bill recently introduced in the state Senate by Sen. Mike Folmer and Sen. Daylin…
Pa. fight against smoking isn’t over Curtis T. Miyamoto and Bruce A. MacLeod Posted: Monday, January 13, 2014, 2:01 AM What were we thinking prior to January 1964? That’s…