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IMS JOB BANK IMS launches new Center for Physician Recruitment!
As Iowa's statewide medical society, we want to help you with your recruiting efforts, and that's why we created the IMS Center for Physician Recruitment or IMS CPR.
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Braley continues fight against geographic inequity
Congressman Bruce Braley recently sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in which he expressed his disappointment with the proposed Medicare physician payment rule and its proposed GPCIs for Iowa physicians. Braley said...
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Reference committee to meet
The 2010 IMS House of Delegates referred Resolution 10-07: Need for Sub-Acute Psychiatric Beds (PDF 25KB) to the IMS Board of Directors. The resolution asks the Iowa Director of Human Services to reconfigure the state's mental health institutes to prioritize sub-acute inpatient capacity....
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Seasonal influenza detected in Iowa
The Iowa Department of Public Health reports that two cases of seasonal influenza A (H3) have been identified in Johnson County by alert staff at the University of Iowa student health clinic. Though it is not unusual to identify a few sporadic cases of flu in the summer months, health...
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IDPH issues annual disease report
The 2009 annual report provides a snapshot of events that impacted the public's health. In 2009, more than 53,000 reports of infectious disease were submitted to IDPH disease surveillance programs, as well as investigations of lead poisoning, occupational related diseases, and environmental...
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DUR seeks physician feedback
The Iowa Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Commission (DUR) recently recommended Medicaid clinical prior authorization criteria changes. The DUR seeks physician feedback on changes for:
guanfacine extended-release;
biologicals for ankylosing spondylitis;
biologicals for inflammatory...
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New antibiotic resistance mechanism identified
Between January and June 2010, three bacterial isolates carrying a newly described resistance mechanism were identified in three different U.S states. This is the first report of the New Delhi metallo-beta-lacatamase (NDM-1) carriage among Enterobacteriaceae...
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CMS to review PECOS enrollment process
CMS is working with providers to address concerns about enrollment in the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries continue to receive health care services and items they need. PECOS is the electronic...
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AMA hosts new payment models seminar on July 12
Learn about new physician payment and delivery models being tested in Medicare and adopted in the private sector during "Pathways to success with new payment models: Bundled payments, medical homes, accountable care organizations," a seminar scheduled...
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CMS Update
On June 25, 2010, President Obama signed into law the "Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010." This law establishes a 2.2 percent update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) payment rates retroactive from June 1 through November 30, 2010....
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Six Month Medicare Patch Once Again Slows Medicare Meltdown
On Thursday, June 24, the House passed H.R. 3962, which provides a 2.2 percent Medicare fee schedule update for physician services through November 2010. The bill passed by a bipartisan vote of 417 to 1 and President Obama signed the bill into law on...
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IMS files litigation to challenge nursing supervision of fluoroscopy
The Iowa Medical Society (IMS) filed litigation today to challenge the Iowa Department of Public Health and the Iowa Board of Nursing for inappropriately expanding the scope of practice of nursing to include the supervision of fluoroscopy.
The American...
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Check out the UI Executive MBA program!
The Iowa Medical Society is endorsing an Executive MBA program offered in Des Moines by the University of Iowa Tippie School of Management. This accelerated 24-month program will allow you to maintain your full-time job and earn a prestigious degree...
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09/20/10
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