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CME COALITION SUBMITS COMMENTS ON CURES 2.0

12/17/2019

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The CME Coalition has submitted comments to Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Fred Upton (R-MI) in response to their solicitation for comments on ‘Cures 2.0’ — an important next step in their efforts to advance medical research and foster innovation.  As the letter points out, policymakers have increasingly recognized that there is an important role for enhanced provider education to address discrete policy challenges.
​Key examples of this cited in the letter include the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)  policy to incentivize medical education for providers by recognizing Quality Improvement CME (QI-CME) as an 'Improvement Activity' under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).  Additionally, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acknowledged the role of CME in combating opioid misuse by leveraging continuing education on safe prescribing and safe use practices in their Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for opioids. And most recently, the House Energy & Commerce and Senate HELP committees included a provision in their bipartisan surprise billing and drug pricing legislation that would direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to improve continuing education for health care providers regarding lower cost biosimilar products.

​​Looking forward, as lawmakers consider policies to support access to new medications, we encourage them to keep in mind the essential role in educating America’s health care professionals to adopt and administer these groundbreaking treatments. The CME Coalition offers significant expertise in this area — representing over 40 leading CME providers and supporters who facilitate programs that impact more than 2,000,000 physicians, nurses, and pharmacists annually — and we look forward to being a part of this dialogue in the months ahead. 
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CME COALITION SLIDES: 2018 LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY UPDATE

9/17/2018

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​At the 16th annual CBI summit on independent medical education and grants, the CME Coalition's Andy Rosenberg outlined the major legislative and regulatory issues that the Coalition has been engaged in throughout 2018. 
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SLIDES: CME COALITION PRESENTATION AT THE ALLIANCE FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS INDUSTRY SUMMIT

5/8/2018

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On May 8, 2018, CME Coalition's Andy Rosenberg and Tom Sullivan gave a presentation at the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions Industry Summit in Baltimore, MD. Rosenberg and Sullivan presented information on changes to the Quality Payment Program that involve CME-related activities. They also reviewed variations to state laws and bills that effect CME, as well as other national issues that effect medical education including shared-decision making, the future of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), and the New Jersey gift ban. 

The slides from the presentation are included below. 

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SLIDES: RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN TODAY'S CHALLENGING WORLD OF CME

10/31/2017

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On Tuesday, October 31, 2017, a free webinar was held to examine 'Risks and Opportunities in Today's Challenging World of CME.' The webinar featured representatives from the CME Coalition, including Senior Advisor Andrew Rosenber and Thomas Sullivan, President of Rockpointe Corp., as well as representatives from the American Academy of Family Physicians and ABTS Convention  Services. Key topics of discussion included MACRA and the new physician Quality Payment Program (QPP), AAFP's Blended Learning Format Option, and more. 

​The slides from the presentation are included below. 
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160 COMMENTS SUPPORT CMS' PROPOSAL TO REWARD 'QUALITY IMPROVEMENT' CME UNDER MIPS

8/25/2017

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A total of 160 comments have been submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in support of their proposal to reward physicians for their participation in certain continuing medical education (CME) activities. Of the roughly 1,300 comments submitted on the proposed rule, 160 individuals and organizations sent comments that included support for the inclusion of quality improvement/practice improvement (QI-PI) CME in the final rule.
​Under the proposal, quality improvement continuing medical education (CME) would be recognized as a Clinical Practice Improvement Activity (CPIA) under the new Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) — a physician reimbursement system created by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). As detailed in the proposed rule (pg. 1042), CMS recommends that “completion of an accredited performance improving medical education program” be included under the list of CPIAs under MIPS — one of the key policy changes proposed for the Quality Payment Program Year 2.
 
Here are links to the organization comments:

  • Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
  • Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions
  • American Academy of Dermatology Association (AADA)
  • American Academy of Family Physicians
  • American Academy of Home Care Medicine
  • American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
  • American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
  • American Academy of PAs
  • American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) & Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)
  • American Board of Internal Medicine
  • American College of Cardiology
  • American College of Emergency Physicians
  • American College of Osteopathic Surgeons
  • American College of Physicians (ACP)
  • American College of Physicians (ACP)
  • American College of Rheumatology
  • ​American Medical Association (see below)
  • American Osteopathic Association
  • American Psychiatric Association
  • American Society for Clinical Pathology
  • American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
  • American Society of Nephrology
  • American Society of Plastic Surgeons
  • Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower
  • Association of American Medical Colleges
  • California Medical Association
  • CME Coalition
  • Council of Medical Specialty Societies
  • Council on Optometric Practitioner Education (COPE)
  • Heart Rhythm Society
  • ​Genentech
  • Massachusetts Medical Society
  • Pennsylvania Medical Society
  • Physicians Advocacy Institute
  • Rockpointe
  • Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education
  • Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)
  • The PCPI Foundation​
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