At a busy and highly successful interim meeting of the AMA House of Delegates, an ACR-cosponsored resolution that calls for exceptions to therapy caps was passed and will become AMA policy. Other areas addressed include payment parity for telemedicine and MIPS reform.
Allison Plitman, MPA, Tom Tack & Jason Liebowitz, MD |
This ACR initiative aims to create a common language to define key data elements for rheumatology and make it easier to compare patient data across EHR systems.
Brooks et al. evaluated the risk of lung cancer in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and RA-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD) compared with the risk in matched controls without RA or RA-ILD. Understanding whether RA predisposes someone to lung cancer and whether patients with RA-ILD represent a uniquely high-risk group could inform cancer-screening strategies.
Screening recommendations, triple therapy and more—here are insights into the upcoming ACR guideline for the care and treatment of patients with lupus nephritis.
The diversity of the ARP’s membership is what originally drew Adam Goode, PT, DPT, PhD, to the organization, enticed him to begin volunteering more than a decade ago and now galvanizes him as he becomes the new ARP president.
“At my very first annual meeting of the ACR, I saw how the ACR brought the whole rheumatology community together, and I knew right away that it was an organization that I wanted to be a part of,” Dr. Langford says. In late November, she became the 88th president of the ACR and looks forward to continuing its focus on education, research and building community.
Washington D.C.—At a Sunday, Nov. 17, Pediatrics Great Debate session of ACR Convergence, speakers argued whether patients with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) should continue their interleukin (IL) 1/IL-6 biologics if lung disease is suspected. Randy Q. Cron, MD, PhD, the director of the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham,…