| Benefits
ACC Fellows, Associate Fellows, and Members receive: |
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| Advocacy |
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Free
subscription to Advocacy
Weekly—a publication that highlights legislation
information. |
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ACC's
advocacy efforts ensure cardiology has a strong, collective
voice in health care debates on important issues: |
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Fighting
for managed care reform in Congress |
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Arguing
for higher Medicare fees |
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Advocating
for expanded coverage of the uninsured |
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Defending
cardiovascular specialists against overzealous efforts
to pursue fraud and abuse
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Rejecting
burdensome E/M documentation guidelines |
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Seeking
greater bargaining power for physicians with managed care
plans |
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Building
proactive payer advocacy capabilities to ensure appropriate
decision making and rapid response to adverse payer policies |
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Lobbying
for increased funding of clinical research in cardiovascular
disease |
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Requesting
revisions to Medicare's proposed outpatient payment system |
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Lobbying
for appropriate graduate medical education (GME) reform |
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Supporting
more stringent regulation of tobacco products |
| Information |
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Free
subscription to the Journal of the American College
of Cardiology (JACC). Published weekly, and is available
in print and on-line. |
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Free
subscription to Cardiology, the College's monthly magazine,
that keeps members in touch with breaking news and innovative
research. |
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Access
to ACC's National Cardiovascular Data Registry, which
collects cardiovascular data and analyzes to detect trends. |
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On-line
services provided by strategic ACC partner providers—internet
companies that understand your practice and information
needs. |
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ACC
Membership Directory, your one stop for finding your peers. |
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ACC
Standards and Guidelines; Easy-to-use pocket forms and
instant Web updates, also available for your palm pilot.
Critical medical information is always within your reach
and includes the ACC/AHA Guidelines and ACP/ACC/AHA Clinical
Competence Statements. |
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Free
subscription to ACC's Cardiosource Review Journal , a
bi-monthly journal, that provides reviews and abstracts
of current clinical cardiovascular literature from medical
and cardiology journals. |
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Cardiosource - Supporting the Practice of Cardiovascular Medicine, is available to all ACC members as benefit of membership. In addition to providing full-text access to the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Cardiosource provides access to summaries of over 1,000 clinical trials, an moving and still image database, hundreds of hours of free CME credits and much, much more. |
| Education |
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Reduced
registration rates to the College's Annual Scientific
Session |
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Reduced
pre-registration rates on ACC Continuing Medical Education
(CME) courses. Check out
the upcoming events at http://www.acc.org/education/programs/programs.htm. |
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Discounts
on ACCEL, ACC's audiocassette service and ACC Educational
Products. |
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Award
opportunities, ACC's direct contribution to furthering
the research activities of its members. |
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www.acc.org,
a primary resource for you, your staff and patients. |
