Search results for "Health policy"
Doctors and hospitals: Allies or adversaries?
While organizations representing hospitals and physicians often agree, there are three key areas in which they don't: site-neutral payments, buying physician practices, and hospital prices.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/03/doctors-and-hospitals-allies-or-adversaries.htm
1 Mar 2019
CMS proposes some revised requirements for chronic care
It is important for internists to understand and plan for how they could meet the proposed service requirements and take advantage of payment for non-face-to-face chronic care management.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/09/coding.htm
1 Sep 2014
Battling the hydra of the medical-industrial complex
ACP leadership has developed a new vision for the future of American health care in order to achieve universal coverage and improve access, reduce costs, improve the dysfunctional payment system, and reduce administrative burdens and excessive complexity.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/04/battling-the-hydra-of-the-medical-industrial-complex.htm
1 Apr 2020
Leadership Day 2017 prioritizes patient protection
Four hundred Leadership Day attendees from 47 states and Washington, D.C., met with 107 members of Congress and their staffs during more than 400 meetings on Capitol Hill to encourage the goal of protecting patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/07/leadership-day-2017-prioritizes-patient-protection.htm
1 Jul 2017
Merger memories and abiding realities
Several of the issues that ACP is championing in 2018 live up to a vision created 20 years ago, when the organization merged with the American Society of Internal Medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/07/merger-memories-and-abiding-realities.htm
1 Jul 2018
Food and fun available in the nation's capital
ACP's staff in Washington, D.C., have years of experience in helping shape national health policy, but for them the dining is all local.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/04/eighteen.htm
1 Apr 2008
A woman in medicine reflects on philanthropic leadership
Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey, MACP.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/03/thirteen.htm
1 Mar 2008
ICD-10 advice, and clarifying transitional care management
The reset compliance date of Oct. 1, 2014, means that internists must move forward with transition and education plans for using the new ICD-10 codes. Start by examining documentation needed to assign the new codes.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/03/coding.htm
1 Mar 2013
The Campaign Trail: Health care plank builds presidential platforms
Where do the presidential hopefuls stand on health care?.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/01/campaign.htm
1 Jan 2008
Doctors lobby for health care reform on Leadership Day
Every spring, contingents of ACP members from around the country converge on Capitol Hill for Leadership Day.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/04/sixteen.htm
1 Apr 2008