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Legislation & Advocacy

Enhance Your Rheumatology Career by Volunteering

Staff  |  April 6, 2012

Are you passionate about advancing rheumatology? As a volunteer, you can help the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) achieve its mission and grow as an organization.

CMS Delays ICD-10 Compliance Date

Kurt Ullman  |  March 15, 2012

Despite months of assurances to the contrary, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced in mid-February they were indefinitely postponing implementation of International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification. The changeover was originally scheduled to take effect October 1, 2013.

Magnify Rheumatology’s Legislative Impact this Month

Staff  |  March 8, 2012

Members of the ACR’s Executive, Government Affairs, and RheumPAC Committees, along with the Affiliate Society Council, attended 75 meetings with legislators and their staff. These meetings are critical to advancing awareness of rheumatology and the issues affecting your profession and patients.

ACR’s Advocacy Toolkit

Staff  |  March 8, 2012

Ways to contact your member of Congress; tips for communicating with your member of Congress; ways to get patients involved; and donloadable briefs, posters, and brochures.

ACR Partners with Patient Organizations

Staff  |  March 8, 2012

The ACR met with representatives from 14 patient advocacy organizations in Washington, D.C., to discuss mutual advocacy and legislative objectives.

ARHP Members Earn Leadership Position, Award

Staff  |  March 8, 2012

Kamala Nola, PharmD, MS, was inducted as the 2011-2012 president-elect of the Tennessee Pharmacists Association; Danuta Bujak, PhD, FNP, an ARHP member, was honored as the recipient of the 2011 Yale School of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Award.

Will There Be an SGR Fix This Year?

Richard Quinn  |  February 14, 2012

Rheumatologists should expect at least one more time-stamped extension to the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula before Congress makes any lasting changes to it. At issue is the future of rheumatologists’ Medicare payments, including the federal Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) recommendation from last year to scrap the formula, reduce payments for specialist services by 5.9% for each of three years, and then freeze them for seven more years, and the 27.4% SGR cut that has been repeatedly delayed by extensions.

Pointers for Rheumatologists Considering AMA Membership

James R. O’Dell, MD  |  February 3, 2012

Join the AMA. Don’t join because you agree with everything the AMA does. Join so we, as rheumatologists, will continue to have a voice and make a difference.

A Comparison of the Canadian and U.S. Healthcare Systems

Simon M. Helfgott, MD  |  February 3, 2012

The joys and the hazards of the Canadian single-payer universal healthcare program Canadian and the high-capacity and costly U.S. healthcare system.

ACR Leaders to Converge on Capitol Hill

Staff  |  February 3, 2012

In early March, leading members of Congress and other key policymakers will meet face to face with volunteer leaders of the ACR.

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