Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Practicing medicine can be a solitary profession with little time to discuss interesting studies, medical evidence, and clinical concerns with other providers andindustry thinktanks.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program is inviting clinicians to discuss their clinical quandaries. AHRQ invites physicians to send their questions or their collected data “on current health care issues, such as tests, treatments, and methods of health care delivery, and describes their advantages or disadvantages,” notes an AHRQ release on the subject. “These reviews are based on relevant published and unpublished scientific literature and provide comprehensive, evidence-based information to consumers, clinicians, and policymakers,” says AHRQ.

Important: Submissions lead to better healthcare outcomes for patients and understanding about what tests and treatments work, particularly for the researchers and policymakers who devise them, AHRQ advises in the release.

Submissions translate to “nominating a potential topic for a potential evidence report and subsequent resources produced” in the EHC Program, explains AHRQ.

To reach the submissions information and form, visit https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/get-involved/suggest-topic.