Staff News Writer

The rate of new cases of melanoma has doubled over the last three decades, reaching 9,000 each year. The start of summer is an important time to talk to your patients about prevention and screening measures for melanoma.

More medical practices are improving their revenue cycle by accepting electronic remittance advice, an electronic version of a paper explanation of payment. See what 6 ways your practice can benefit from their use. A newly updated AMA toolkit offers the insights you need.

Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) helps patients manage serious medical and life issues. The June issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics takes a close look at ethical issues in the “quality-of-life specialty.”

More health plans are paying claims with virtual credit cards (VCC). Physicians might not be aware of hidden fees which could be costing you 5% of your payments. You may be losing a significant amount of your contractual payments to high interchange fees charged by the credit card company.

Eight physicians were chosen last week as executive officers for the AMA Board of Trustees, representing a wide range of specialties, practice settings and regions of the country.

Medicare payment cuts exceeding $700 million were eliminated from legislation that sought to redirect this funding to an unrelated trade program, following an overwhelming vote in the U.S. House of Representatives last week. Now the U.S. Senate must take action.

A new campaign launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is galvanizing patients to take control of their health by taking advantage of covered preventive services. You can use this opportunity to talk to empower patients.

Doctors across the country are frustrated with electronic health record (EHR) systems. Physician involvement in a special group of heath IT leaders could help rethink EHRs.