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The American College of Physicians Performance Measurement Committee reviewed the single MIPS quality measure tied to migraine and declined to support it, citing outdated guideline basis, missing exclusions, and lack of physician-level testing.

The AMA’s CPT Editorial Panel approved a structural overhaul of maternity care coding, replacing global obstetric codes with phase-specific reporting across antepartum, labor management, delivery, and postpartum care effective January 1, 2027.

The American College of Physicians issued updated breast cancer screening guidance recommending biennial mammography for average-risk women aged 50 to 74, with shared decision-making for those 40 to 49 and discontinuation discussions after 74.

“To realize the full potential of the [Safe Childbirth Checklist], implementers and policymakers need to understand better what quality infrastructure is necessary to create an enabling environment.” (Kaplan et al., JAMA Network Open)

“When I ask hospitals about who is leading their immediate-use compounding initiatives, sometimes I get a blank stare from the pharmacy department, and often an even more blank stare from nursing.”

HFpEF and HFmrEF collectively account for up to 75% of all heart failure cases, yet clinical research and treatment evidence in HFpEF and HFmrEF is substantially limited compared with other types of heart failure.