Physician Issues
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has recalculated the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule payment rates and conversion factor for calendar year 2021 to reflect changes effective Dec. 27 under the Consolidated Appropriations Act.
Published last month, the first of a three-part survey report from The Physicians Foundation paints a sobering picture of the existential threat the pandemic has posed to many physician practices.
More than half of independent physicians reported concerns about whether their practices will survive during the pandemic, according to a recent McKinsey & Company survey.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about new challenges for health care providers including the way teams communicate and work together. In this first of a two-part podcast, Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president, AHA Physician Alliance, sits down with two senior leaders from New York City-based鈥
In the second of this two-part podcast, Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president, AHA Physician Alliance, speaks with leaders at Henry Ford Health System discussing learnings and experiences as a result of COVID, specifically taking a look at the role of collaboration between clinical and administrative鈥
While you are doing your part to help during the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Medical Association (AMA) and 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) want to ensure you have resources to help keep your work environment safe from cyber-threats that could disrupt your practice, the hospital, or鈥
A new AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Insights Report 鈥淓volving Physician-Practice Ownership Models鈥 explores the role of physicians at the center of the health care value equation, analyzes emerging investor types, strategic implications for hospitals and health systems and organizational鈥
In this Voices on Value piece, Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA鈥檚 The Value Initiative, talks with Reshma Gupta, M.D., evaluation and outreach director of Costs of Care, about the organization鈥檚 efforts to raise awareness of the unintended financial harm of care and to disseminate innova
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nov. 1 issued a final rule updating physician fee schedule (PFS) payments for calendar year (CY) 2020. The rule also includes several policies implementing year four of the quality payment program (QPP) created by the Medicare Access and CHIP鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Nov. 14 call for clinical diagnostic laboratories, including hospital outreach laboratories, on reporting data for the Clinical Diagnostic Test Payment System in 2020.