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View video from June 23rd RPA Capitol Hill Day. More than 60 nephrologists visited House and Senate offices to present RPA’s highest priority legislative issues including urging Congress to halt Medicare physician payment cuts. To view and download RPA’s legislative issue briefs click here.
Registration is now open
for the 2008 Fall Fellows Workshop in Minneapolis,
MN on September 12, 2008. This workshop is designed
for renal fellows who are preparing to make
the transition from training to practice. Whether
you’re in your first or second year this
is a workshop you don’t want to miss!
Find out about employment opportunities, contract
negotiation, medical directorships and much
more! Click here
to view the agenda and to register TODAY!
Nurse Practitioner
/ Physician Assistant Meeting to be held July
17 -18, 2008. As the demands to meet the needs
of an ever growing population of kidney disease
patients are increasing, advanced practice nurses
and physician assistants are broadening their
scope of practice into all areas of patient
care. This program has been designed to address
the needs of the practitioner, whether novice
or experienced, to explore caring for inpatient
kidney patients and the kidney transplant patient.
Click here
to find out more and to register.
July RPA
News now available
Log into the members only section immediately
to view/download.
RPA
Board Approves Statement on Effective NP/PA
Training Programs
CMS Releases
Final Rule on ESRD Conditions for Coverage;
RPA Analysis Log into the members only
section immediately to view/download.
RPA's
Health Policy Handbook for Nephrology Practitioners
Available Online
RPA is pleased to provide
The Health Policy Handbook for Nephrology Practitioners
online. The handbook is designed to make public
policy advocacy more accessible to nephrology
practitioners and enable RPA members to take
part in state and federal advocacy efforts affecting
their practice. The handbook provides easy-to-use
tips on such actions as calling, visiting, or
writing to members of Congress and your state
legislators, as well as working with Medicare
program decision makers and contractors. RPA’s
successful public policy advocacy is dependent
on membership participation. RPA hopes the information
provided in the Health Policy Handbook will
help the membership become more engaged in our
advocacy efforts. To access the Health Policy
Handbook for Nephrology Practitioners online,
please log in to members only.
RPA
and AMA Conducting Physician Practice Information
Survey
For
the first time in nearly a decade, the RPA,
the American Medical Association (AMA), and
more than 70 other health care professional
organizations, have worked together to coordinate
a comprehensive multi-specialty survey of America’s
physician practices. The survey will collect
up-to-date characteristics of thousands of physician
practices from virtually all specialties, and
be used in efforts to positively influence national
decision makers to ensure accurate and fair
representation for all physicians and patients.
Click
here to read more.
RPA Updates Position
Paper on Use of Clinical Care Algorithms or
Pathways in Delivery of Quality Renal Patient
Care
Members should log into the members only site
to download.
The paper can be ordered by clicking
here.
New Medicare Billing
Requirements for Anemia Therapies
The Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing
an expanded reporting requirement for all claims
billing for administration of an ESA for non-dialysis
patients. Click
here for full details.
To
assist nephrologists and nephrology practices
in deciding whether to participate in Medicare’s
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI),
RPA has developed educational resources that
provide general and nephrology specific background
on the program. For more information,
click here.
RPA Information on
Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit – Part
D - Click
here for more information.
Consult Letter Template
- Click here
to complete and download.
Journal for Healthcare
Quality Publishes Results
of RPA CKD Toolkit Pilot Test. Read
the article published in the November/December
2007 issue here.
RPA
is a national medical specialty association
with a membership comprised of physicians in
the subspecialty area of nephrology and their
practice managers. The organization's mission
is: to promote optimal care utilizing the highest
standards of medical practice for patients with
renal and related diseases; to promote and protect
the professional status of the discipline of
nephrology and to serve as a resource for the
development of national health policy affecting
renal physicians and their patients.
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