Resources to Help You in Your Practice and Profession

ACP’s Coding for Clinicians subscription series helps clinicians to expand their knowledge of clinical codes, optimize payments for high-complexity care, correctly identify billable services, and accurately bill for time and expertise. The content features 13 regularly updated self-paced activities (eligible for CME/MOC), videos, and downloadable tools. Updates include:

Inpatient coding based on updated medical decision-making guidance
New unified hospital inpatient/observation evaluation and management codes
New time-based coding thresholds and prolonged service coding
Major changes to inpatient and outpatient consultation coding
Full spectrum of guidance on outpatient coding, critical care, pediatric care, and more

Financial Well-being Program

ACP debuted a new Financial Well-being Program this year with resources for managing finances. The program helps you navigate financial pressures, budget, and save for a financially secure future. It features tools and resources on topics such as:

Physician compensation and contract negotiation assistance
Saving for Your Future (Webinar)
Basic financial planning concepts-personal and retirement
Paying off medical student loans
Debt repayment calculator
Budgeting and saving tool
Tax strategies
Insurance
Women Physicians’ Financial Preparedness: 2021 Report
Dictionary of financial terms
Clinical coding

This year ACP launched a new financial member benefit, in collaboration with Resolve, a physician compensation benchmarking and contract review company. The member-exclusive benefit is designed to provide members with current internal medicine physician compensation data and offer discounted access to employment contract review and negotiation support from lawyers who specialize in physician compensation.

Free resources include:

A feature for comparing current and accurate internal medicine physician salary and contract details.
A Contract Scoreboard to rate your contract against fellow internal medicine physicians who practice within your specialty and region.
Information on which states are open or closed to J-1 waiver applications for the current cycle, as well as how many applications each state has received. This tool provides information on the competitiveness of each state and general guidelines for application submissions.

Along with these free tools, Resolve offers several contract review and negotiation packages with expanded salary data. The package provides internal medicine physicians with assistance from attorneys specializing in physician contracts and at a fraction of the cost. ACP members receive a 10% discount on all Resolve packages.

ACP Insurance Products

ACP offers access to quality insurance options through our ACP Member Insurance Program with significant discounts for ACP members. A variety of options including personal, life insurance and business insurance plans are administered by AGIA Affinity and designed specifically for internal medicine physicians. Plans include Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Disability Income Insurance, Long Term Care, Term Life Insurance and Member Office Overhead Expense plans.

Ethics

ACP’s Center for Ethics and Professionalism develops policies and resources on issues of medical ethics and professionalism. This year, ACP published new policy papers on:

Ethical Guidance on Family Caregiving, Support, and Visitation in Hospitals and Residential Health Care Facilities, Including During Public Health Emergencies
Ethical Considerations in Precision Medicine and Genetic Testing in Internal Medicine Practice

New ACP case studies draw on ethical challenges you may meet in everyday practice, teaching and research including:

“Show Codes, Slow Codes, Full Codes, or No Codes: What is a Doctor to Do?” highlights the importance of communicating with patients and their families about what is in their best interest and the importance of advance care planning.
“When Resources Are Limited During a Public Health Catastrophe: Nondiscrimination and Ethical Allocation Guidance” hones your ability to describe ethical considerations on guidelines for allocation of health care resources during a public health catastrophe.
“Patient Prejudice? The Patient Said What?... and What Comes Next” teaches appropriate responses to inappropriate behavior by patients in medical encounters and associated ethical issues.
“Lab Result Reporting, Ethics, and the 21st Century Cures Act on Information Blocking” dives into the benefits and potential ethical implications for patients and internal medicine physicians of the 21st Century Cures Act Rule.

The ACP Ethics Manual provides a strong foundation for our work on a range of ethical issues and links to position papers and case studies

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