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The Iowa Medical Society provides top-quality educational programs to our members and their office personnel. Our seminars feature excellent speakers who provide timely and helpful information to assist practices with delivering high-quality medical care.
The American Medical Association (AMA) has introduced a comprehensive set of new web-based solutions for coding and billing medical services that are available for the first time through a newly created interactive website. AMA Coding Online provides electronic access to authoritative coding and compliance...
The June 8 AMA webinar explaining the details of the Medicare Patient Empowerment Act is available on demand for AMA members and non-AMA members. Hosted by AMA President Cecil B. Wilson, MD, the webinar outlines the major provisions of the bill, reviews the history of federal and state policy on Medicare...
The AMA has submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) on their proposed policy regarding antitrust enforcement of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). The AMA called on the FTC and DOJ to make strategic changes to their proposed policy so physicians in...
A new report by the Commonwealth Fund Commission sets forth the rationale for creating ACOs and describes several promising types of ACO models that should be considered as part of an effort to facilitate adaptability and spread of accountability for quality and cost to as wide a segment of the U.S....
Learn about the major provisions of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed regulations for the Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) program by participating in an On Demand Recording of an AMA webinar. The one-hour webinar outlines the major provisions of the CMS proposed...
The Iowa Healthcare Collaborative is offering a series of three sessions (March 29, May 10 and June 28) designed to help you apply Lean principles and techniques to real time problems you're dealing with in your institution. Participants will choose to focus on one of four problems common in health...
In November, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that beginning in calendar year 2012, eligible professionals who are not successful electronic prescribers based on claims submitted between January 1, 2011 - June 30, 2011, may be subject to a payment adjustment on their Medicare...
The AMA is developing resources for physicians to help turn challenging new payment models into opportunities for physician-led patient-centric care, improved practice efficiencies, better coordination between specialists and primary care, and better margins. The new health system reform law provides for a range of new pilot programs, including accountable...
The American Medical Association has designated November as Heal that Claim™ month and is supplying physicians with tools to fight flawed and inefficient claims processing by health insurers. One in five medical claims is processed inaccurately by commercial health insurers, according to the AMA's...