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…
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…
Archita Desai, MD, a research associate with the University of Arizona Liver Research Institute, won a two-year, $150,000 grant from the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease Foundation to examine health-care utilization by advanced liver disease patients to better…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would make changes in the second year of the Quality Payment Program as required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). CMS reports the changes…