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Audited by a Recovery Auditor Contractor—Now What?

Melesia Tillman, CPC, CRHC, CHA  |  

The word audit seems to put fear into the hearts of many physician practices across the country—and it shouldn’t. If you are prepared for an audit, your practice will run more smoothly from both a financial and personnel standpoint.

Arthritis on the Rise

By Sue Pondrom  |  

CDC notes significant increase in arthritis-attributable activity limitation

Opting Out of Medicare

By Antanya A. Chung, CPC, CPC-I, CRHC, CCP
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A how-to guide for physicians

ARHP News: Celebrating a Year of Achievements

Linda Ehrlich-Jones, PhD, RN  |  

What an exciting year 2010 has been for the ARHP! We have made amazing progress in education, collaboration, and charting the ARHP’s future. To help you understand what the ARHP leadership and staff are doing on your behalf, I would like to share a few of our accomplishments from the past year.

A New Pain PILL: Lending a Personal Approach to Personalized Medicine

David S. Pisetsky, MD, PhD  |  

In caring for patients with chronic pain, I have tried all kinds of treatments to reduce bothersome symptoms, hoping to achieve improvements that are better than the usual one or two points on a visual analog scale. The list of these treatments is long—no doubt, you have tried the same ones—and include the expected array…

ACR launches its First Public Relations campaign

Stanley B. Cohen, MD  |  

Many of us have experienced that look—confusion—when you tell someone that you work in rheumatology. It happens at dinner parties, in line at the grocery store, and during conversations on airplanes. The look can open the door to conversations about rheumatology. However, when the influential people whose decisions affect our specialty don’t know who we…