The American Medical Association’s (AMA) RVS Update Committee (RUC) and the Current Procedural Terminology Committee (CPT) meet six times per year to review resource costs and code descriptors for provider services. At these meetings, the ACR is represented by several volunteers and staff to provide a voice in shaping Medicare policy for rheumatology. The first…
AMA House of Delegates 2018 Annual Meeting Recap
On June 8–13, the AMA House of Delegates (HOD) came together in Chicago for its 2018 Annual Meeting. With the recent change in apportionment of geographic and specialty delegates now equal to each other, more than 600 members of the HOD were present, with several hundred staff and attendees from the AMA and other medical…
Precision Medicine for Lupus Continues to Progress
CHICAGO—The promise of precision medicine—the tailoring of treatment to a given patient based on genetics and other factors—has probably been best illustrated in oncology, with therapies targeted specifically to markers expressed on tumors. But rheumatology is in the thick of precision medicine as well, said Judith James, MD, PhD, chair of the arthritis and clinical…
The Smartphone as Diagnostic Tool
SAN DIEGO—Increasingly, technological advances are placing new tools into the hands of office-based rheumatologists. And they don’t have to cost a lot in capital equipment outlays by the medical group, because some of the best advances can be accessed via the device that is already in most doctors’ pockets, their smartphone. Smartphone technology gets more…
A Parathyroid Hormone Both Builds & Destroys Bone
SAN DIEGO—A hormone secreted by the parathyroid gland is both a builder and a destroyer of bone in humans, with important implications for a variety of conditions treated by rheumatologists. In the Oscar Gluck, MD, Memorial Lecture at the 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting Nov. 3–8, Henry Kronenberg, MD, chief of the Endocrine Division at Massachusetts…
Updates on Giant Cell Arteritis
SAN DIEGO—Recent research tells us more about giant cell arteritis (GCA) to help rheumatologists more accurately diagnose and effectively treat patients with this type of vasculitis. On Nov. 6 at the ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, three experts explored the latest findings on GCA pathogenesis, diagnostic approaches, imaging modalities and growing treatment options. GCA: What’s Really Happening?…
The FDA Approved Several New Rheumatology Drugs in 2017
SAN DIEGO—In a session at the 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, Kam Nola, PharmD, MS, professor in the College of Pharmacy and vice chair in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., updated participants on new medications and new indications for rheumatology treatments and safety labeling changes approved by the U.S. Food…
Professor Shares Findings from 45 Years of Lupus Research
SAN DIEGO—What are the predisposing genes that suggest who will develop active systemic lupus erythematosus and who will stay healthy? Decades of research data help rheumatologists clarify this picture, says Argyrios N. Theofilopoulos, MD, professor of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. At his Nov. 5 lecture at the 2017…
Translating Genetic Discoveries into Rheumatic Therapies
SAN DIEGO—Will rheumatologists soon be able to use data from genetics and genome-wide association studies to more accurately predict disease and develop new therapies for rheumatic diseases? At a Nov. 5 session at the 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, experts shared their views on how to glean this useful knowledge from genomics studies. The cost to develop…
SLE Remission: The Treat-to-Target Approach
SAN DIEGO—Treatment strategies for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have changed a great deal over the years, but progress has been slow and inadequate. According to a 2011 survey, many patients with lupus still report that they have a low quality of life due to their health problems.1 Rheumatologists face the challenge to develop more successful…
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