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Connecticut Health Care NewsHCMA MedNotes: Important Deadlines for Physicians – January 24, 2023
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS has extended the deadline to file a 2022 MIPS Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) hardship extension until MARCH 3, 2023. The original deadline was January 3, 2023. If physicians feel they have been...
HCMA ALERT – Suspended Medical Licenses Must Be Renewed by February 8
During the period of the Public Health Emergency, the Connecticut Commissioner of Public Health suspended the requirement for medical and other licenses to be renewed. On November 2, 2022, the Commissioner of Public Health, Manisha Juthani, MD, issued an order...
HCMA ALERT: Get Engaged and Advocate for Your Medical Practice
Physicians are facing devastating Medicare payment cuts from regulatory changes enacted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Congress has only a small time left to pass legislation to stave off these harmful cuts. Read More
HCMA ALERT: Congress Anticipated to Vote Soon on Prior Authorization Fix
Physicians complete an average of 41 prior authorizations per week. This amounts to approximately 13 hours each week that physicians spend on administrative work instead of treating patients. If an insurer covers a treatment, physicians should not have to waste time...
MedNotes: Physicians Included in CT’s “Red Flag” Law
Public Health Emergency Extended To October 13, 2022 The U.S. Public Health Emergency (PHE) has been extended through October 13, 2022. CDC data shows that more than half of the country's population lives in a county with a high COVID–19 Community Level, where the...
MedNotes: Physicians as Candidates for Public Office
There are several physicians running for public office in 2022 at both thefederal and state levels. Read More
MedNotes – April 5, 2022: HCMA Active at the Capitol
In addition to the virtual legislative forum held with area state lawmakers in early March 2022, HCMA board members testified on several bills important to the practice of medicine: Dr. Laureen Rubino addressed the Public Health Committee advocating for improvements...
MedNotes April 20, 2022 – Important Provider Relief Deadline on Friday
Those physicians who received more than $10,000 in provider relief funds and failed to submit their period 1 report should act immediately. Between Monday, April 11 and Friday, April 22, 2022, at 11:59 pm ET, providers who have not submitted their Period 1 report may...
HCMA Physician Spotlight – Pietro Memmo, MD
HARTFORD, Conn., March 16, 2022– Orthopedic Associates of Hartford (OAH) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Pietro Memmo, MD as President effective January 2022. Dr. Memmo is an Interventional Physiatrist, one of the few in the State of...
MedNotes: March 15, 2022 Vaccination Efforts in Hartford
HCMA Physicians Meet with LawmakersMembers of the Association met with area State lawmakers on March 11 totalk about priority legislative priorities. The topics included: - Making the prior authorization process less burdensome - Insurers, not medical...