Massachusetts Medical Society Comments to CMS on Requirements Related to Surprise Billing, Part 1

9/7/2021

databases (APCDs) are eligible databases to be used when a plan does not have sufficient information …

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Letter to CMS Administrator Brooks-LaSure on Surprise Medical Billing Law Implementation, Part 2 (PDF)

9/2/2021

that the agencies exclude from IDR the denials that are eligible for external review under state or federal law …, limiting the types of payment denials that are eligible for the IDR process. As an example, the agencies … should disqualify those adverse determinations that involve medical judgment and are eligible for review …

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Letter to CMS Administrator Brooks-LaSure on Surprise Medical Billing Law Implementation, Part 2

9/2/2021

medical necessity. We ask that the agencies exclude from IDR the denials that are eligible for external … review under state or federal law, limiting the types of payment denials that are eligible for the IDR … judgment and are eligible for review under the federal external review process under 45 C.F.R. § 147.136(d …

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Letter to Division of Insurance Commissioner on Telehealth Reimbursement Parity (PDF)

9/1/2021

conditions who are acutely vulnerable to COVID-19 and not yet eligible to be vaccinated are very …

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Letter to Division of Insurance Commissioner on Telehealth Reimbursement Parity

9/1/2021

conditions who are acutely vulnerable to COVID-19 and not yet eligible to be vaccinated are very concerned …

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Massachusetts Medical Society offers health and safety tips for back to school

8/31/2021

to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. Get your eligible child vaccinated – Ensure that your child …

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2019 Complete Delegates’ Handbook

8/20/2021

by a district shall be eligible to serve for a third consecutive Presidential Year who has not attended at least …, and a cap on the number of27 patients they are eligible to treat;5 and28 29 Whereas, These restrictions …

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2019 Final House Votes - All Reference Committees

8/20/2021

related restrictions, including the cap on the number of patients that physicians are 13 eligible … of the Society for at least five years are eligible to become members or 28 alternate members of the Committee … they shall not be eligible for re-election. Alternate members of the Committee on 32 Nominations shall serve …

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2018 Complete Delegates' Handbook

8/20/2021

be eligible to serve for a third consecutive Presidential Year who has not attended at least two sessions …

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2018 Informational Reports

8/20/2021

identified as areas contributing to burnout. A total of 1,882 of 2,031 (96.6%)1 eligible physicians completed …

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