Latest AACU News

No-Cost Prostate Cancer Screening Legislation Updates

Read more about our No-Cost Prostate Cancer Screening legislative efforts CA – AB632 Passed the House and has moved to the Senate Rules Committee for assignment to a committee for review. TX HB 118Passed out of the insurance committee and has been placed on the...

ICYMI: AACU After Hours – Private Equity & the Business of Medicine

https://aacu.memberclicks.net/aacu-after-hours-webinars Last week, the AACU Young Urologists Committee and Employed Urologist Committee hosted a discussion on private equity and the business of medicine featuring Dr. Mark Edney and Dr. Ian Thompson. More than 40 AACU...

AACU Members Serve as ABU Examiners

In February 2023, five members of the AACU participated as examiners for the ABU Certifying Examination (Oral Board Exam): Dr. William Reha, Dr. Peter Knapp, Dr. Lorie Fleck, Dr. Terrence Regan, and Dr. Thomas Herrick. Oral examiners were selected for their knowledge,...

AACU Shares Concerns about Modifier 25 with Cigna

On April 18, the AACU was part of a coalition led by the AMA that sent a letter to Cigna expressing concerns with its forthcoming policy that will require the submission of office notes with all claims including evaluation and management services and modifier 25 when...

Updates to Cigna Modifier 25 Policy

As you may know, Cigna recently updated its Modifier 25 – Significant, Separately Identifiable Evaluation and Management Service by the Same Physician on the Same Day of the Procedure or Other Service policy to require submission of office notes with all claims...

AACU Supports the PPI Survey to Update the MEI

The American Medical Association is undertaking a 2023-2024 physician practice expense data collection effort with an independent research partner, Mathematica.  The AACU is in favor of this effort in order provide an accurate update of the Medicare Economic Index and...

Physician Practice Information Survey

The Physician Practice Information (PPI) Survey will be led by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 2023-2024 with the primary purpose to collect representative data on practice expense and hours spent in direct patient care. These data will be collected at the...