Spokane, WA – Arthritis Northwest announced a new shared savings contract, established with a large Washington State health plan, designed to provide medication cost transparency to physicians and to remove strict step therapy barriers for patients. The new agreement incorporates a Medication Clinical Management (MCM) program, an innovative model that is expected to lower cost […]
What does the spread of coronavirus mean for patients with chronic illnesses, such as inflammatory arthritis? With more than 80,000 detected cases of the virus internationally, this is an important question for rheumatologists to be considering. A patient that is immunocompromised must take extra care to know the symptoms of the virus. While the beginning […]
The 2020 Medicare physician fee schedule promises to lighten the administrative load for physicians in 2021 with news about changes in coding for outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) services. CMS estimates that under their proposal, rheumatologists would see on average a 15% payment increase, beginning in 2021. The proposed coding changes recognize the value of […]