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Citing rushed implementation, unanswered questions and potential negative consequences to patient care, 11 healthcare organizations are calling on the Biden administration to delay and make changes to mandated quality measure reporting for accountable care organizations.
The healthcare organizations, including the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association, sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra asking for a delay or other options.
The ACO Coalition has sent a separate letter to Becerra citing its concerns.
The concern regards changes to quality reporting for the Medicare Shared Savings Program published in the Final 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule.
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s After the Pandemic series, we asked our editorial board
members to discuss what significant and lasting effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have on medicine and the delivery of healthcare.
Here, we interview Anders Gilberg, senior vice president for government affairs at the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) in Washington, D.C.
What effects will the pandemic have in the aftermath on the way medical practices are run?
Gilberg: Last year, medical practices were forced to overcome numerous challenges to cope with plunging patient volumes and increased costs while trying to stay solvent amid the COVID-19 pandemic. MGMA members reported, from an operations standpoint, that certain administrative positions such as billing, information technology, and compliance were successfully performed by employees via remote work, but it isn t clear how long this will continue.
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Experts examine health policy and politics in a pandemic world
By Michael R. Malone By Michael R. Malone
04-19-2021
Public health experts from the U.S. and Latin America, along with health industry representatives, convened to analyze the policy and politics relating to the pandemic as part of the “2021 Business of Health Care” conference, hosted by the Miami Herbert Business School.
With an aim to remedy the health, economic, and societal ills accentuated by the devastating COVID-19 pandemic even as the virus again surges in different areas of the United States and Latin America health experts explored a range of topics at the virtual half-day Business of Health Care conference on April 16.