Amy McIntosh, MD is an orthopaedic surgeon at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas (TSRHC). Prior to her current stint at TSRHC, Dr. McIntosh was an assistant professor of orthopaedics at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and a 2006-2007 orthopaedic fellow at TSRHC. The following is a Q&A that TOA recently conducted…
With limited exceptions, team physicians and athletic trainers are only licensed in their home states. Therefore, when team physicians and athletic trainers follow their teams across state lines, they are not licensed in the secondary state. An increasing number of states are passing laws to provide licensing exceptions to team physicians and athletic trainers for…
California’s Assembly recently went one step further in the out-of-network balance billing debate and dictated rates for hospital-based providers for health plans that are not self insured. (Federal ERISA laws prevent the states from regulating self-insured employer plans.) The California Medical Association (CMA) was neutral. CMA viewed the bill as a “compromise” and a rate…
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On July 15, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a unilateral decision to implement a new sweeping mandate to collect data about global surgery services. According to the proposal (pp. 46192-46200), beginning just five months from now on Jan. 1, 2017, surgeons providing 10- and 90-day global surgery services to Medicare…
August 21, 2016 is the deadline to order prescription pads from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). As a result of Senate Bill 195 from the 2015 Texas Legislature, authority to issue prescription drug pads is being transferred to the Texas State Board of Pharmacy on September 1, 2016. TOA provided details regarding this…
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) is meeting with the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) to discuss potential changes to the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process. The California Orthopaedic Association (COA) recently completed a survey of 612 orthopaedic surgeons (84 Texas orthopaedic surgeons participated). The results will be presented to the ABOS leadership…
On July 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a major proposal on the future of bundled payments and Medicare physician payments under MACRA. Click here for full details and a link to TOA’s 45-minute webinar on MACRA.
On July 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a major proposal on the future of bundled payments and Medicare physician payments under MACRA. Click here for full details and a link to TOA’s 45-minute webinar on MACRA.
On July 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposal to add hip and femur fractures to the 67 existing Comprehensive Center for Joint Replacement (CJR) regions, effective January 1, 2017. In addition, CMS announced a proposal to mandate bundled payments for cardiac care (heart attacks and bypass surgery) in 98…
