Legislation, Regulation and Advocacy Overview

MGMA's Government Affairs staff analyzes the latest healthcare legislation and issues about healthcare management to keep you informed.

Latest News

• MGMA to HHS: 5010 causing major payment disruptions for medical practices
• Check remittance advice for 2012 e-prescribing penalty
• CMS releases FAQs on Medicaid RACs
• Top 10 government issues for practice executives to watch in 2012

For more of the latest news on federal regulatory and legislative healthcare issue visit the MGMA Washington Connexion archive.

MGMA Advocacy in Action

• Joint letter to congressional leadership on repealing the SGR
• Talking points for Congress to repeal the SGR 
• MGMA letter to Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to repeal the SGR
• MGMA opposes MedPAC's SGR proposal
• Sign the petition to repeal the SGR at EveryPatientCounts.org  
• Video sponsored by MGMA, AMA and others: It's Time for Congress to Repeal Medicare's SGR  
• MGMA comments on the proposed 2012 Medicare physician fee schedule

Visit MGMA's Advocacy Archive for all our advocacy efforts.

Resources and Tools

• E-prescribing in 2012: New year, new requirements, new penalties
• MGMA analysis of the final 2012 Medicare physician fee schedule   
• CMS issued an impact chart which gives an overview of the RVU changes by specialty    
• MGMA analysis of the final Medicare ACO rule  
• CMS announcement on reprocessing certain 2010 Medicare claims  

Critical issues to MGMA members

• Healthcare reform
• PECOS
• PQRS
• Meaningful use
• Medicare participation decision FAQs