Callers throughout the Delaware Valley flooded the phone lines on Tuesday, Sept 20th with an array of health-related questions during the Medical Society’s public service program “Docs on Call.” Approximately 400 viewers ranging in age 18 -87 spoke with volunteer physicians during CBS-3’s evening news broadcast.  Callers’ questions ran the gamut of health topics, from [...]

  Influenza Vaccine Prices Are Now Available The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a yearly flu vaccination as the first and most important step in protecting against flu viruses. Remind your patients that annual vaccination is recommended for optimal protection. Medicare pays for the flu vaccine and its administration for seniors and other [...]

Colleagues:  With about 100 days left this year, many of you are asking what the medical society is doing about stopping the 29% SGR cut scheduled for January 1, 2012.  This past Monday in Philadelphia, PAMED physician leaders met with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) for the second time this year to discuss the importance of [...]

CMS proposes to pay for physician services using the facility (vs. non-facility) rate for the physician component of diagnostic services and for nondiagnostic services that are: 1) performed in the three days prior to an inpatient admission 2) related to the admission, and 3) are performed in a physician practice that is wholly owned or [...]