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ACMSS Urges Bipartisan Cooperation on Health Care After ACA Repeal Fails
CONTACT: Kristin Hagen, CMSS, CPHIMS
Executive Director, American College of Medical Scribe Specialists
(800) 987-3692
ORANGE, Calif., March 29, 2017. Even with the acknowledged defeat Friday of the 'repeal and replace plan for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the American College of Medical Scribe Specialists (ACMSS) remains vigil to ensure progress made in recent years remains on track. ACMSS urges Congress and the new administration to work in a bipartisan way on a plan that improves the health of all Americans.
'Today's Affordable Care Act covers the minimum preventive benefits accessible to all Americans, said ACMSS Executive Director Kristin Hagen. 'All parties need to work together to ensure the success of the program continues, keeping millions of Americans insured, and that we keep moving toward a patient-centeredhealth system that emphasizes prevention, disease reversal.America's healthcare system is innovating today, with minimal oversight, allowing the greatest autonomy.21st Century care exists today.
ACMSS believes that Medicaid expansion is essential in building 21st Century clinical care, research, and outcomes across medicine, preserved inACA, keeping the healthcare system on track and focused on value-based patient-centered care based on wellness. ACMSS was concerned that provisions of the proposed bill, along with proposed amendments during the debate leading up to the vote, would strip people's coverage of many screenings and preventive care activities that are necessary to improving the health of Americans and preventing disease. 'To be truly well is to ensure American's have the resources, tools, and services available to customize, tailor care, and individually overcome. Today we have those opportunities thanks to the ACA.
'The volume-based healthcare system of the past of treating sick people and reacting to disease and injury is costly, and it does not work. Prevention is America's future. says Hagen. 'ACA improves our access and to public healthcare.ACMSS assists in innovating quality evidence-based paths toward wellness, utilizing ACA as the base. Americans need and deserve minimum protections and adequate covered care that focuses on prevention and reversing disease to keep them well. Every patient, every story is unique. ACA affords physicians and patients choices, at minimum, in affordable care. 21st Century clinical care takes us above and beyond into clinical medicine specificity and utilization. Today, America has 2 systems of innovative care, both complementary.
ACMSS assists the nation in real-time Meaningful Use certification, meeting minimum federal CEHRT CMS regulations, offering the greatest autonomy and innovation for physicians. All individuals must be CMSS certified, meeting personnel attestations, working together responsibly through multi-billion-dollar investments made for CEHRT, in partnership with CMS. Physician/CMSS Teams offer specialties the minimum need to transform care,transform patient lives. 'Through Meaningful Utilization of clinical documentation, and reutilization, America's healthcare system is transformed with CMS, revolutionizing clinical care, writing our nation's stories to wellness. Key reform has begun in measures such asopioid reform.
The American College of Medical Scribe Specialists is the nation's only nonprofit professional society representing more than 19,000 Medical Scribe Specialistsin over 1,900 medical institutions. ACMSS partners with academic institutions, non-profit partners,and medical scribe corporationsto offer both education-to-certification and employment-to-certification pathways. ACMSS advances the needs of the medical scribe specialist industry through certification, public advocacy, secure innovative systems design, individualized andcustomized consulting, and continuing education for improved care coordination and patient-centric care toward wellness. ACMSS is available for public speaking engagements and customized consultingserving healthcare.
ACMSS offers several pathways for Certified Medical Scribe Specialists. Please contact ACMSS Executive Director Kristin Hagen directly at
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