Exclusive: ACR Convergence 2024| Focus Rheums

An official publication of the ACR and the ARP serving rheumatologists and rheumatology professionals

Your Invitation Here: Learn How Advocacy Can Help You & Your Practice

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Speaker: Christina Downey, MD, RhMSUS, Loma Linda University Medical Center

9:15–9:30 a.m. PST

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Legislative Update: What Is Happening in Congress

Speaker: Lennie McDaniel, JD, American College of Rheumatology

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9:30–9:45 a.m. PST

Policy Update: What Is Happening at CMS and the FDA

Speaker: Amanda Grimm Wiegrefe, MSc, American College of Rheumatology

9:45–10 a.m. PST

Questions & Answers

 

Key Sessions to Help Support Your Practice

12S119: Making the Clinic a One-Stop Shop: In-Office Dispensing

Sunday, Nov. 12

11 a.m.–12 p.m. PST

Location: Room 30D-E

Speakers: Ashley Beal, MD, Gary Feldman, MD, Colin Sheffield, PharmD

12S123: Challenges in Access to Care: Payor Issues, Prior Authorizations and Practice

Sunday, Nov. 12

12–1 p.m. PST

Location: Room 26A-B

Speaker: Brian Henderson, Robert Levin, MD, Wendy Ramey, BS

14T119: Optimizing Access to In-Office Treatments

Tuesday, Nov. 14

9–10 a.m. PST

Location: Room 26A-B

Speakers: Angus Worthing, MD, Joy Schechtman, DO, FACR

14T169: What Your Practice Managers Wish You Knew Presented by NORM

Tuesday, Nov. 14

4–5 p.m. PST

Location: Room 26A-B

Speakers: Nancy Ellis, MBA, Michelle Owen, Alicia Sullivan

Find more information in the full online program.

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