Folks, it's now official: CMS has now established the new conversion factor of $33.2875 for dates of service March 9 through December 31, 2024. The 2024 conversion factor for dates of service January 1 through March 8, 2024, was $32.74. RPA-Nephrology #notgoodenough #fixdocpay

Governor Carney Mayor John Carney - please change your position and oppose HB 350 to create a Hospital Cost Review Board. Putting politicians in charge of Delaware’s local hospital budgets will limit patient access to care and threaten public health! #healthcare

The Delaware HB350 would be a disaster to healthcare in the First State. Look at and listen to all the #healthcare heroes who came to oppose this bill. Vote no Valerie Longhurst and Mayor John Carney. #HealthyHospitalsDE

Always code as specific as possible! 📣 Getting paid for what you do maximizes patient access! But that means knowing something re coding - written notes must support codes Great HCC coding example by ⁦Larry Ward, MD, MPH, MACP⁩ #IM2024 #PrimaryCare #PalliativeCare ⁦Bayhealth⁩

Delaware is about to create a self-imposed #healthcare train wreck for its citizens. HB350 by Valerie Longhurst and Sen. Bryan Townsend and Mayor John Carney needs to be revised. Listen to healthcare leaders and their constituents and quickly reconsider this perilous path. #healthcarecost

Delaware is at the precipice of a #healthcare disaster. Sen. Bryan Townsend please don’t make us like Vermont!

Delaware Senators and Mayor John Carney - vote NO on SB2/HB350! Don’t wreck healthcare in Delaware and hand hospital control to politicians! Delaware Democrats

Bayhealth celebrated the phase one opening of its Bayhealth at Blue Hen medical facility. Please go to bayhealth.info/BlueHenOpens to read more.

And... the 2025 physician fee schedule proposed rule is out! Time to dig in! public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-14828.pdf

The Cures Act was well intentioned but patients should hear about diagnoses from their clinician and not via online portal. This law needs amending. An example of the pendulum swinging to far to one side. ⁦The Washington Post⁩ washingtonpost.com/health/2024/07…

Private equity: health care’s vampire statnews.com/2024/08/19/pri… via STAT

After the HB350 debacle, Delaware House Speaker Longhurst, who led the effort, falls in district race, showing there are consequences to taking bad positions. #healthcare Valerie Longhurst

Moved over to #BlueSky! See ya there!

I am very excited to share the publication of our paper, Modernizing Risk Adjustment in Healthcare. This is an issue that impacts every physician today. ⁦Jason Goldman⁩ ⁦Joshua Liao⁩ ⁦Brian E. Outland⁩ ⁦Anne Furey Schultz MD FACP⁩ ⁦ acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN…

An amazing physician who will make an amazing representative for #PA03! We need somebody who will stand up for the right to receive healthcare.

Please get rid of HCCs! New ideas from ACP on how to measure risk.