DHPA

  • Home
  • About Us
    • Leadership
      • Executive Committee
      • Board Members
    • DHPA Members
    • Contact Us
    • Join Us
  • Advocacy
    • Patient Access to Independent GI Care
      • Colorectal Cancer Screening
    • Modernizing the Stark Law
    • Saving the IOASE
    • Pathology Services Utilization
  • Resources
    • Research
    • Fact Sheets
    • Letters to Policymakers
  • Newsroom
    • Press Releases
    • DHPA in the News
    • GI News Round Up
  • Take Action
    • Past Actions

March 25, 2016

GI News Round Up – 03/19/16 to 03/25/16

GI News

A New Agenda for the FDA
By Steve Sternberg
U.S. News and World Report

ACP makes Medicaid expansion waiver recommendations to ‘best suit patients’
Healio

GI Group Outlines Stark Overhaul
Q&A with Dr. Scott Ketover
Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News

5 most read GI/endoscopy stories: Week of March 14-18
By Anuja Vaidya
Becker’s ASC Review


Colonoscopy

Time for Congress to save lives during National Colorectal Cancer Month
By John Morrison
Helena Independent Record


Medicare Reimbursement

Considering alternative payment models in GI: 6 takeaways
By Anuja Vaidya
Becker’s GI and Endoscopy

CMS Ahead of Schedule in Push for Medicare Alternative Payment Models
By Debra A. McCurdy
Lexology

CMS tests waters for enhanced Medicare Advantage audits
By Bob Herman
Modern Healthcare

Medicare Advantage Plans Help Keep Patients out of Hospital
By Marcia Frellick
Medscape


MACRA

‘Fee for service is going away’: What it really means
By Alan L. Kaplan, MD
Urology Times

Here’s your MACRA primer (and don’t worry, it doesn’t ‘kill’ Meaningful Use)
By Betsy Weaver
MedCity News

Making the Grade as an Alternative Payment Model
By Mindy Yochelson
Bloomberg BNA

Physicians Stymied by MACRA’s Unknowns
By Debra Beaulieu
HealthLeaders Media

Top Ten Tech Trends: The MIPS Waiting Game
By Rajiv Leventhal
Healthcare Informatics

Uncertainty ahead for meaningful use and physicians
By Mary K. Pratt
Medical Economics

Washington Debrief: Quality Measurement, Meaningful Use Changes were Popular Subjects during House Hearing Last Week
By Leslise Kriegstein
Healthcare Informatics

Filed Under: GI News Round Up, Newsroom

Member Spotlight

Since opening in 2004, East Valley Gastroenterology & Hepatology Associates has helped tens of thousands of people with digestive and liver disorders. They are dedicated to the future of digestive healthcare and actively participate in clinical research trials.

 

Learn more at:
www.eastvalleygastro.com

Become a Member

    Is your practice interested in promoting and preserving accessible, high quality and cost-efficient care in the independent GI medical setting? Contact us today about joining DHPA.

    Recent News

    • GI News Round Up – Friday December 18

    • DHPA Opposes Most Favored Nation Rule Announced by CMS

    • DHPA Supports USPSTF Recommendations to Begin CRC Screening at 45, Calls for More Research on Disparities in Communities of Color

    • Broad Physician Coalition Urges Trump Administration to Issue Final Rules to Modernize Stark

    • Physicians, Patients Give Telehealth High Marks During COVID-19 Pandemic

    • USA Today: Telehealth can be lifesaving amid COVID-19, yet as virus rages, insurance companies look to scale back

    • Healio Gastroenterology: Telehealth in a Pandemic, Just the Beginning of the Story

    • Ending Social Injustice and Health Care Disparities

    • Medscape: Gastroenterology Groups Map a Return to Elective Endoscopy

    Digestive Health Physicians Association, Inc.
    10770 Columbia Pike, Suite 400
    Silver Spring, Maryland, 20901
    © 2020 DHPA

    Follow @DHPAnews
    Tweets by DHPAnews

    Copyright © 2021 · Executive Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in