April 27, 2021 Issue 115
Register Today for the 2021 KMA Virtual Annual Meeting
Registration is now available for the 2021 KMA Virtual Annual Meeting, to be held Aug. 27-29. The meeting will be held virtually, while continuing to offer education sessions, elections, as well as the KMA House of Delegates. Some preliminary events, such as reference committees, will be held in advance of the meeting during the month of August.

The theme for this year’s meeting, “Better Together: Transforming the Landscape of Care,” will speak to the challenges overcome by the physician community over the last year, as well as the changes in healthcare that will likely become part of the future of medicine.  
 
KMA officers and trustees for the 2021-2022 Association year will be elected by the KMA House of Delegates during the KMA Annual Meeting. A listing of positions to be filled is available here. Email schott@kyma.org to submit a nomination.

Register for the 2021 KMA Virtual Annual Meeting here.
Medicare FFS Claims: 2% Payment Adjustment (Sequestration) Suspended Through December
An Act to Prevent Across-the-Board Direct Spending Cuts, and for Other Purposes, signed into law on April 14, 2021, extends the 2% sequester reduction suspension period to December 31, 2021. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has instructed the Medicare Administrative Contractors to automatically release any previously held claims with dates of service on or after April 1 and reprocesses any claims paid with the reduction applied. Providers do not need to take any action.
Kentucky Hospital Association COVID-19 Dashboard

The latest update of the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) COVID-19 Dashboard is now available here. The dashboard is an effort to provide current information about hospitalizations and ICU bed usage rates due to the novel Coronavirus.
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MEMBER NEWS
Kolter Puts Precision Medicine Into Practice

KMA member John David Kotler, M.D., practicing internist with Baptist Health, was featured in Louisville Medicine magazine for an article he wrote about pharmacogenomics, a combination of pharmacology and genomics.
Davenport Named Treasurer

KMA member Robert Davenport, M.D., Lexington Clinic East - Family Medicine, was elected treasurer to their board of directors.
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