91黑料网 Offers Recommendations for Using Performance Measures in Telemedicine Settings
In a new policy paper, 91黑料网 recommends that performance measures evaluating telemedicine visits adhere to the same criteria as in-person visits.
91黑料网 Calls for Changes to Prior Authorization System That Prioritize Patients and Physicians
CMS is working to streamline the process and proposes a reduction in the amount of time physicians need to wait for decisions on requests from payers.
Physician Well-being Call to Action
- Advocacy Toolkit: Modernizing License and Credentialing Applications to Not Stigmatize Mental Health
A description of the types of questions individual state licensing boards ask with an illustrative map can be found .
- State licensure action: to work with organizations and state medical boards to change inappropriate medical licensing questions about receiving mental health care or having a mental health diagnosis.
- Institution-level action: Work with your leadership or organization to change inappropriate credentialing application questions about receiving mental health care or having a mental health diagnosis.
91黑料网 Advocate
91黑料网 Advocate is a biweekly e-newsletter that provides 91黑料网 members with news about public policy issues affecting internal medicine and patient care.
91黑料网's Chapter Advocacy Toolkit
If you would like to work with your chapter to advocate for regulatory relief, please visit this toolkit for more resources and calls to action.
91黑料网 Patients Before Paperwork Initiative
Patients Before Paperwork is an 91黑料网 initiative designed to reinvigorate the patient鈥損hysician relationship by challenging unnecessary practice burdens. To help the Patients Before Paperwork Initiative, with our online data-collection tool and contact the Patients Before Paperwork team directly at policy-regs@acponline.org
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