Current management of osteoporosis... [Read More]
Build Up Bone
Search results for: fracture
Reading Rheum
Handpicked Reviews of Contemporary Literature... [Read More]
Paget’s Disease of Bone
Paget’s disease generally affects people over 40, and while the disease is associated with heredity, the cause is unknown. The ACR has recently added a fact sheet about this condition to the patient education material online.... [Read More]
Have We Reached an Estrogen Comfort Zone?
A review of research on prescribing estrogens in systemic lupus erythematosus... [Read More]
Put Hughes Syndrome on Your Radar
Diagnosis of antiphospholipid syndrome is increasing. Here’s how to recognize and treat it... [Read More]
Reading Rheum
Handpicked Reviews of Contemporary Literature... [Read More]
Coding Changes for 2007
Note these CPT and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code changes…... [Read More]
Your Representatives on Capitol Hill
Government Affairs Committee advocates on behalf of the ACR and all rheumatologists... [Read More]
What Has the ACR Done for You Lately?
The world in which we currently practice is not the same one we knew five to 10 years ago. Insurers second-guess our decisions and create numerous hurdles for us to overcome before our patients can be treated. Government agencies are seeking ways to reduce healthcare expenditures and improve what they perceive as a lack of quality and consistency in healthcare delivery. These groups, as well as Congress and employers (who purchase benefits for their employees), have begun a concerted effort to grade rheumatologists on the basis of what they perceive to be quality and efficiency and then pay us according to those criteria.... [Read More]
Payments Cut to the Bone
CMS reduces reimbursement for DXA and vertebral fracture assessment... [Read More]