December 5, 2015 Practices that may have thought they were safe from Medicare payment penalties next year could be in for an unpleasant surprise if they don’t take action now. Problems with how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been collecting...
December 4, 2015 The American Medical Association (AMA), the premier national physician organization, gathered physician and medical student leaders representing all aspects of medicine during its Interim Meeting and adopted new policies on emerging health care...
November 5, 2015 Last week, the House and Senate passed H.R. 1314, the “Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015,” and the president signed the measure into law Nov. 2. The bill sets discretionary appropriations caps for 2016 and 2017, providing some relief from the budget...
October 21, 2015 https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/21/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-public-and-private-sector THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 21, 2015 FACT SHEET: Obama Administration Announces...
October 8, 2015 Texas physician Eldo Frezza MD is being required to defend a medical professional liability lawsuit filed in New Mexico. Frezza v. Montaño has reached the New Mexico Supreme Court after lower courts ruled New Mexico law should apply to the case. The...
October 7, 2015 The NM Medical Board requires physicians applying for or renewing their licenses to complete a detailed survey. The survey answers are compiled into a MD/DO database. The 2012 Legislature moved the management of this database from the Department of...
October 1, 2015 Because ICD-10 is a major transition, CMS has available resources and contact information below to help. The CMS Coordination Center is a dedicated group of Medicare, Medicaid, billing, coding, and information technology systems experts drawn from...
August 25, 2015 The Fix (8/25, Lavitt) reports that the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) have joined forces with twenty seven medical organizations – including New Mexico Medical Society – “to address the...
July 7, 2015 An AMA Viewpoints post by AMA President Steven J. Stack, MD. Implementation of the ICD-10 code set is just around the corner, with a hard deadline of Oct. 1. Many physicians have been concerned about adopting this code set because of the heavy investment...
June 17, 2015 President-elect William Ritchie MD, an orthopedic surgeon in Albuquerque, will travel the state in late summer/early fall with NMMS Executive Director Randy Marshall, NMMS legal counsel John Anderson, and Regional Manager for The Doctors Company Jeff...
