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PAMED is your trusted source for timely updates on legislation, regulation, public health, advocacy, practice management, and other developments impacting physicians and their patients, delivered to members each week in The Dose e-newsletter.

 

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  • The PAMPAC Pulse - March 2024

    A message from the PAMPAC's Chair...
  • Rethinking Risk Adjustment

    Stay out of harm’s way when it comes to risk adjustment compliance. Granite GRC Consulting presents a series of monthly articles for the Pennsylvania Medical Society’s DOSE newsletter. This is the first in the series.
  • ACIP Voted on Key Vaccine Recommendations

    The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a series of meetings to determine new recommendations that could significantly impact vaccine protocols.
  • PAMED Argues for Fairness in Allocation of Damage Awards

    On August 20, 2025, PAMED joined the Pennsylvania Coalition for Civil Justice Reform (PCCJR) and 16 other concerned organizations in the filing of an amicus brief arguing to maintain fairness in the allocation of lawsuit judgment awards.
  • Department of Health Renal Disease Advisory Committee Meeting

    The Renal Disease Advisory Committee established by the Renal Disease Treatment Act will hold its quarterly public meeting on Friday, April 19, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
  • Medicare Telehealth Coverage Expansion Update

    With the signing of the American Relief Act, 2025 on December 21, 2024, these Medicare telehealth waivers were extended through March 31, 2025. (CMS, 2025.
  • Department of Health Upcoming Committee Meetings

    Upcoming DOH committee meetings
  • Bringing Humanity to the Medical Field

    Growing up in a medical family, Mona Syeda Masood, DO, always knew she would become a physician.
  • 5 Easy Ways to Improve Documentation

    Stay out of harm’s way when it comes to risk adjustment compliance. Granite GRC Consulting presents a series of monthly articles for the Pennsylvania Medical Society members. This is the second article in the series.
  • Millions in Physician-Paid Premiums Transferred to Commonwealth Coffers

    The transfer of $200 million from the Pennsylvania Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) to the general fund of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was completed on August 13, 2025. The $200 million consisted entirely of unspent premiums collected from Pennsylvania physicians and appreciation from investment of those funds.

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