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Considering Benzbromarone as First-Line Therapy for Gout

In this comparative effectiveness clinical trial, Yan et al. set out to compare nontitrated, low-dose benzbromarone (not approved in the U.S.), a renal urate transporter 1 inhibitor, with low-dose febuxostat as the first-line therapy in gout patients with renal uric acid underexcretion. [Read More]

COVID-19: Strategies to Protect Adult & Pediatric Patients

An ACR Convergence 2022 session provided practical updates on ways to best protect pediatric & adult patients with rheumatic disease from COVID-19. [Read More]

New Findings for Polymyalgia Rheumatica & Osteoarthritis

The Plenary III Session reviewed the results of the SAPHYR trial of sarilumab in PMR patients, as well as the WE-CAN study on the impact of a community-level diet & exercise program on knee pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis. [Read More]

Understaffed, Over-Scrutinized & Feeling Powerless? ACR Advocacy Can Help

Elizabeth “Blair” Solow, MD, MSc, and Angus Worthing, MD, FACP, FACR, described the top political issues affecting rheumatology now and how ACR members can work toward practices and policies that help us better care for patients. [Read More]

Evolution of Medicare’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System: MIPS Value Pathways

In November, the CMS finalized 12 MIPS Value Pathways (MVP) in the Quality Payment Program, including a rheumatology MVP. In 2023, clinicians can opt to report via traditional MIPS, the rheumatology MVP or both. [Read More]

Psoriatic Arthritis Advances in Therapeutics, Imaging & More Presented at ACR Convergence 2022

PHILADELPHIA—Selecting my top 10 picks for abstracts in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) at the ACR Convergence 2022 meeting was not easy because there was a great… [Read More]

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Speak Out Rheum: How Did We Go So Wrong with Opioid Prescribing?

I have been listening to The Fighter Pilot Podcast because my fantasy career would have been to fly a jet fighter plane (not even remotely… [Read More]

Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Rheumatology

I looked at the joints. They spoke back to me—“I need more humanism,” they whispered. To longtime readers, those two sentences may sound both familiar… [Read More]

Speak Out Rheum: Racism’s Impact on Patient-Provider Relationships

“I tell everyone who comes into her room now, ‘You will not disrespect my daughter again. No one will,’” recounts Sarah’s mother. “Every time a… [Read More]

Clinical Academic Rheumatology Generates Profits for Health Systems

Rheumatologists should be better compensated, in part, due to the revenue they bring to the hospital system from their procedures, argue D’Anna et al., who found that clinical academic rheumatologists bring significant downstream revenue to the healthcare system. [Read More]

September Updates from the ACR Insurance Subcommittee

In recent months, the ISC has engaged with payers to reduce administrative burden on practices and continues to advocate to the CMS for the use of complex administration codes for biologics. [Read More]

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