Don’t Drop the Ball this January
In the United States, we have historically invested far more into treating sickness than we have in maintaining health. It is common knowledge that the past few years of crisis has placed tremendous mental, emotional, and physical stress on medical personnel. As the world rapidly changed and the stress placed on our medical system was […]
ACMS Year in Review
This blog post is coming right off the heels of the December 6th ACMS Board of Directors meeting; the final board meeting of 2022. It’s hard to believe that 2022 is already ending, but when I reflect back to March of this year, when I started my role as Executive Director, I am in awe of […]
Prior Authorization Reform
On November 3, 2022, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed PA Senate Bill 225 into law as Act 146. This new law does not eliminate prior authorization but it does aim to streamline the prior authorization process. It provides parameters that govern the relationships between patients, providers, and insurers for health care coverage decisions. Pennsylvania will now join […]
Viewpoints: House of Delegates from a First Time Attendee
By: Nadia A. Sundlass, MD It was a beautiful fall day for the drive from Pittsburgh to Hershey for the first hybrid House of Delegates meeting since the beginning of the pandemic. The fall foliage was in peak colors as I drove through the countryside. I was hoping to get to Hershey in time for […]
What to Know About the Adderall Shortage
By: Patrick Hussey, PharmD, MBA FDA Announces Shortage of Adderall On October 12th, the FDA announced that there is a shortage on Adderall. Amphetamine mixed salts, or its brand name of Adderall, is a popular attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy drug. Reports of the shortage surfaced in early September, but the FDA has only recently […]
What the Venue Rule Change Means for Healthcare
Venue Rule Change Will Likely Increase Cost of Healthcare and Threaten Patient Access in Pennsylvania By: Curt Schroder, Executive Director, PA Coalition for Civil Justice Reform Pennsylvania is at risk of history repeating with another medical malpractice healthcare crisis thanks to a change in the state’s venue rule. In August, the state Supreme Court rescinded […]
Defining the Future of Integrative Health
Sara Hussey, MBA, CAE Duquesne University recently hosted its first Integrative Health Summit (Sept 22 – 24). Co-hosted by Duquesne University’s proposed College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Center for Integrative Health, this multi-disciplinary Summit had the goal of connecting healthcare practitioners and professionals who are dedicated to improving patient care and defining the future of integrative health. The key […]
ACMS Kicks Off the “Navigating Your Career in Medicine” Series
In our first session of “Navigating Your Career in Medicine”, early career physicians and ACMS board members heard from society president, Dr. Peter Ellis. Dr. Ellis is a renowned Pittsburgh physician who spent over 30 years working as an Oncologist and Chief Medical Officer for UPMC. From the clinical side, Dr. Ellis shared his best […]
Student Loan Forgiveness & How it Might Impact Physicians
Under an executive order signed by President Joe Biden, any individual student-loan borrowers who earn less than $125,000 annually and married couples with earnings under $250,000 are eligible for $10,000 in federal student-loan debt forgiveness. Borrowers who qualified for the Pell Grant program, aimed at helping students from lower-income backgrounds, would be eligible for another […]
Putting Self-Care in Healthcare
When I started as the Executive Director of the Allegheny County Medical Society in March of this year, I had a general awareness of the pressure, stress, and mental strain that was put on healthcare workers. But as I started to dig deeper and began speaking to ACMS members, I quickly learned much more about […]