AANEM News Express Related to Policy

Call for Action - Help Avert Reimbursement Cuts!

    8/22/2022
Call for Action - Help Avert Reimbursement Cuts!

Significant Pay Cuts Averted for 2022

    12/29/2021
In response to a large, concerted effort on the part of many physician groups, including AANEM, Congress took action at the very end of 2021 to avoid an impending nearly 10% cut to Medicare payments that would have gone into effect January 1, 2022.

On December 21, 2021, Congress passed the Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act which avoided a 4% statutory cut from the PAYGO (Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010) provisions, extended the moratorium on the 2% Medicare payment sequester, and mitigated the significant 3.75% reduction in the Medicare conversion factor.

AANEM State Liaisons – Virtual Visits to Capitol Hill

    12/29/2021
AANEM returned to Washington, D.C. virtually for its 8th Annual Day on Capitol Hill in November. AANEM State Liaisons met with key legislative offices throughout the month of November to educate Senators and Representatives about electrodiagnostic (EDX) medicine and the current challenges facing the patient and professional community. 

The Liaisons’ primary “ask” of the offices was for support of AANEM’s continued efforts to advance quality standards for EDX medicine to both improve patient care and stop fraud and abuse in this area. Nearly every office was very supportive of this cause and seem poised to take actionable steps in support of the effort in the new year.

AANEM Attends AMA House of Delegates Meeting

    12/15/2021
The American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) convened virtually once again in mid-November for its Interim Meeting. The meeting ran for 4.5 days, in addition to virtual caucus meetings throughout the 2 weeks leading up to it. The meeting covered a wide range of important, timely topics currently affecting health care in the United States.

AANEM Attends AMA House of Delegates Meeting

    6/28/2021
The AMA’s House of Delegates (HOD) convened virtually in mid-June for its Annual Meeting. The meeting ran for five and a half days, in addition to caucus meetings throughout the 2-3 weeks leading up to it. The meeting covered a wide range of important, timely topics currently affecting health care in the U.S. Not surprisingly, similar to the HOD Interim meeting last November, many of the resolutions brought before the HOD directly related to managing the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

President Biden’s Initial Health Care Priorities

    1/25/2021

On Wednesday, January 20, President Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46^th President of the United States. In typical presidential fashion, shortly after being sworn in, President Biden issued several executive orders, many of which related directly to health care and, more specifically, the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, as is customary, members of President Trump’s administration, 

Changes to Office Visit Evaluation and Management Codes Coming in 2021: Your Questions Answered

    10/14/2020
In 2019, the CPT Editorial Panel approved changes that will significantly impact office and outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) codes.  These changes will only affect CPT codes 99202-99215 and will go into effect January 1, 2021.
 

AANEM Comments on 2021 Proposed Update to Physician Fee Schedule & QPP

    10/1/2020
AANEM staff, with input from the Professional Practice and Quality & Patient Safety Committee members, drafted and submitted a 13-page, detailed comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on September 29 regarding its proposed rule changes to Medicare’s Physician Fee Schedule and the Quality Payment Program (QPP) that addressed issues of importance to our membership. 

Updated: AANEM Position Statement –Establishing Standards for Acceptable Waveforms in Nerve Conduction Studies

    10/1/2020
An updated version of AANEM’s position statement, “Establishing Standards for Acceptable Waveforms in Nerve Conduction Studies,” was published in the October 2020 edition of Muscle & Nerve.