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Mastering governance and leadership is a must for running an efficient and profitable service line. Joel Sauer explains the roles of each within your organization and provides questions you can answer to review your current structure.

Trying to manage CV physicians within a single model certainly is challenging. Joel Sauer explains how cardiovascular care should be viewed and managed in a more unique way to ensure CV physicians are able to provide quality patient care. 

CAA board members recently traveled to Washington, DC to bring our message to Congress. They were very effective in outlining examples of how administrative burden has eroded the physician/patient relationship, decreased access to care, decreased physician satisfaction, added administrative cost, etc.

On January 20, 2017 the Trump administration issued a memorandum to all federal agencies ordering, among other things, the temporary postponement of the effective dates of all recently published regulations that, as of January 20, 2017, had not become effective. The memorandum postpones the effective dates for such regulations for a period of 60 days from the date of the memorandum, January 20, 2017.

When in doubt, stop. As Larry Sobal explains in this week’s blog post, there are too many questions and too few physician practices and organizations ready for the big changes coming with MACRA. Is it time for CMS to listen to all the chatter out there and slow things down?

Now that CMS has announced major changes to Medicare reimbursement, It’s more important than ever for physicians and health systems to become familiar with all the MACRA programs. Larry Sobal offers tips for navigating the changes in this week’s blog post.