CMS has proposed canceling the cardiac and expanded joint replacement bundled payment models. The rule, which was sent to the Office of Management and Budget last week, would cancel the mandatory bundled payment programs for heart attacks and bypass surgeries…
After the Arizona Board of Pharmacy announced that the Arizona Controlled Substance Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) is now integrated with Health Current, the statewide health information exchange, the monitoring program will take effect October 16. Authorities say PMP is an important…
Gov. Doug Ducey has extended the reporting of opioid-related data by renewing his June 13 executive order requiring physicians to report through MEDSIS suspected opioid overdoses, suspected opioid deaths and neonatal abstinence syndrome. Recently the governor expanded the requirements to…
Banner University Medical Group welcomed five new physicians to the University of Arizona Department of Family and Community Medicine at the UA College of Medicine. All of the new staff members will be primary care physicians. Anthony Arnold, MD Dr…
Banner University Medical Center Tucson has been ranked among the best hospitals in the nation for cancer, geriatrics, gynecology and pulmonary care in U.S. News & World Report’s 2017-18 Best Hospitals’ ratings, and as “high performing” in four other medical specialties. The publication also rated Banner University…
Former PCMS President Charles Katzenberg, MD, is the keynote speaker at a lecture presented by the UA Sarver Heart Center and the The Heart Series: "Preventing Heart Disease for 25 Years: What We've Learned" on Sunday, August, 13, from 2-3:30 p.m…
UA’s Dr. Monica Kraft Elected Fellow of European Respiratory Society Monica Kraft, MD, chair of the University of Arizona Department of Medicine, has been elected as a fellow of the prestigious European Respiratory Society. She is one of only 17 people…
Effective October 1 or 60 days after the data has been integrated in the statewide health information exchange, prescribers are required to obtain a “patient utilization” report from the Arizona Controlled Substance Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (CSPMP) before prescribing opioid,…
Providers are our eyes and ears in the community. Please report immediately unusual numbers of patients presenting with similar symptoms, unusual symptoms, or unexplained infectious diseases in healthy individuals. Do not wait until laboratory results become available. This report includes:…
The Pima County Medical Society has signed onto a letter to Senators McCain and Flake which calls on them to oppose the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). PCMS joins the Arizona Medical Association, Arizona Chapter of the American College of…