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Payer Update:

8/6/10 UPDATE from Highmark: Effective Sept. 1, 2010, stress echocardiography will require prior notification, not authorization, as previously announced.  Myocardial perfusion imaging/nuclear cardiology services will still require authorization, effective Sept. 1, 2010.  Click here for further details.
 

Congressional Update:

Advocacy Update from ACC (June 22, 2010)

Within the past several weeks, the House and the Senate approved separate legislation preventing a 21.2 percent Medicare physician payment cut from taking effect on June 1. However, each Chamber has been unable or unwilling to consider the other’s legislation to stop the Medicare payment cuts. As a result of Congress’s rancor, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began processing payments with the 21.2 percent cut on June 18.

Enough is enough, Congress!

Physicians across the country are tired of Congress’s short term budgetary solutions to this ongoing physician payment crisis. This year alone, Congress has approved and allowed to expire three short-term freezes in Medicare payment without addressing the growing problem. If allowed to continue, the cuts that went in to effect last Friday will impact your patients the most – leading to less access, higher fees, longer waits and impersonal care.

All ACC members are encouraged to call their lawmakers today and yet again urge them to enact a permanent replacement of the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula. Tell them that you are fed up with their irresponsible short-term solutions and want a real, permanent solution to the SGR crisis. Call your members of Congress at (800) 210-7193!

We know that you are tired of contacting Congress on this issue, however please know that you are not alone and your calls are needed now more than ever. The entire House of Medicine is united in its fight for a permanent repeal of this flawed payment formula.

Thank you for taking the time to speak on behalf of your patients and your profession.
 

 
 
 

ACC Pinnacle Network
As part of the American College of Cardiology's commitment to helping practices thrive in today's challenging health care environment, the College has launched the new PINNACLE Network™. This first-ever, registry-based cardiovascular network is designed to provide practices with the tools they need to promote practice innovations and achieve clinical excellence. Click here for more information.

 


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Updating Your ACC Member Profile

Step-by-step instructions to update your ACC member profile
are available here.

 

 

ACC Involvement
Interested in becoming more involved in ACC at the national level? Visit the ACC website for additional information. The PA Chapter President will be wiling to write a letter of support after reviewing a copy of your application. Please forward a copy to the chapter office via email to melias@pamedsoc.org or fax to PaACC at 717-558-7841.
 

 

 
 


Pennsylvania Chapter, American College of Cardiology
777 East Park Drive, PO Box 8820
Harrisburg, PA 17105-8820
PH: (717) 558-7750 ext. 1595; FX: (717) 558-7841

Maria Elias, Chapter Executive
melias@pamedsoc.org

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