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Annual Meeting Preview: Maximizing Reimbursement Under MACRA, MIPS & APMs

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Howard Blumstein, MD, a co-moderator of the session, calls the session “a primer and update on where we are with these programs and where we are likely heading.”

Given the importance of these programs for how rheumatologists are currently paid, Dr. Blumstein emphasizes the value of the session to “provide ways for practices to continue to survive and thrive in the current evolving healthcare environment.”

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Mary Beth Nierengarten is a freelance medical journalist based in Minneapolis.

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