The MFN Rule could dramatically restrict patient access to infusion medications administered in physician offices, especially for patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, which are both major categories of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
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Press Releases
DHPA Supports USPSTF Recommendations to Begin CRC Screening at 45, Calls for More Research on Disparities in Communities of Color
While supporting the draft recommendations overall, Dr. Glenn Littenberg, DHPA chair of health policy, expressed some concern about USPSTF’s recommendations with respect to screening colonoscopy versus stool-based CRC screening.
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Broad Physician Coalition Urges Trump Administration to Issue Final Rules to Modernize Stark
The Digestive Health Physician Association and eighteen groups representing physicians who provide care for millions of Americans urged the Trump Administration to issue final rules to modernize the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback statute (AKS) so that physicians can better provide coordinated care, which improves outcomes and lowers costs.
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Physicians, Patients Give Telehealth High Marks During COVID-19 Pandemic
Washington DC – A study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology suggests that telehealth services are an effective way to treat patients safely during periods of health care system disruption and shows that both patients and gastroenterology (GI) physicians overwhelmingly approve of telehealth services provided during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ending Social Injustice and Health Care Disparities
Racism and bigotry are incompatible with the oaths and moral responsibilities that we, as physicians, accepted in dedicating our lives to protecting the health of everyone in our communities, regardless of race, religion, age, gender, nationality or sexual orientation.
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