The American Medical Association sent a letter to CMS expressing concern about regulations with overlapping timelines, including the value-based modifier, ICD-10, the electronic prescribing program and physician quality reporting system.
"Facing all of these deadlines at once is overwhelming to physicians, whose top priority is patients," said AMA President-elect Jeremy Lazarus, MD. "We have asked CMS to develop solutions for implementing these regulations in a way that reduces the burden on physicians and allows them to keep their focus where it should be — caring for patients."
The letter was co-signed by other organizations, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians.
"Facing all of these deadlines at once is overwhelming to physicians, whose top priority is patients," said AMA President-elect Jeremy Lazarus, MD. "We have asked CMS to develop solutions for implementing these regulations in a way that reduces the burden on physicians and allows them to keep their focus where it should be — caring for patients."
The letter was co-signed by other organizations, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians.
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