MD Chapter ACC Gathering at ACC.24Join our informal gathering at ACC.24 - stop by for a drink and apps at the end of a day of education. When you arrive simply ask the staff to locate our tables. See you in Atlanta! Date: April 6 Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm Location: Vues Lobby Bar Omni Atlanta Hotel Centennial Park 100 CNN Center, Atlanta, GA
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Advocacy UpdatesView MDACC's 2024 Annapolis Session Priorities Click here to support the Non-compete Ban legislation MDACC SUPPORTS CHANGES IN PRIOR AUTHORIZATIONBills in both the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate have been introduced to reform prior authorization and step-therapy. MDACC is supporting these reforms through letters, in-person testimony, and an email campaign to the membership. See below for more details. RE: SUPPORT FOR SB 308 Health Insurance – Utilization Review – Revisions and SB 515 Health Insurance – Step Therapy or Fail First Protocol – Revisions These bills target the unnecessary denial of health care services by health insurers. Commonly known as prior authorization or step therapy, these practices often delay or deny medications and services that have received clinical consensus through stringent vetting and are published and updated regularly in medical journals and literature. Time is critical for cardiovascular patients. The sooner a cardiologist can treat and monitor a patient, the more likely the patient is to recover and thrive. Unfortunately, insurer prior authorization program denials in Maryland are rising. Increasingly, cardiovascular professionals use point of care tools (ACC Practice Tools) and other technological resources (NCDR National Cardiovascular Data Registry) to access information that provides update information that guides treatment decisions and helps them provide timely care.
In 2021, an American Medical Association (AMA) survey revealed the following about the impact of prior authorization on physicians and patients:
Not only are these policies hurting patients, but they are hurting physicians, too. The process to secure prior authorization is labor intensive, costly, and stressful. Surveys consistently reveal that undue administrative burden is a leading cause of physician burnout and depression. @ACCMarylandTwitter's embedding functionality is temporarily?? out of service. When it is working again, we will restart it on this page. In the meantime, feel free to click on our handle @ACCMaryland to see the latest from the Chapter. |