CMS released its calendar year 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule on Nov. 1, including a new add-on code for infectious diseases developed and advocated for by IDSA. Thank you @CMSgov for including this code and supporting the ID workforce. idsociety.org/news--publicat…

Learn how to use new G2211 code introduced in the 2024 evaluation and management services revisions by CMS in our new webinar feat. Timothy Sullivan, MD, FIDSA (@TimSullivanMD), and John Fangman, MD. idsociety.org/multimedia/all…

Lessons (Machine) Learned From COVID-19 🆓 Freely Available bit.ly/3U5Qkqi

Dr. Timothy Sullivan discusses why people are getting infected with Vibrio vulnificus, a “flesh-eating bacteria,” in New York City, how to prevent it, and what to do if you’ve been infected: mshs.co/3RgiIoh

Lessons (Machine) Learned From COVID-19 🆓 Freely Available bit.ly/46GvcuP

1/ Welcome to our recurrent monthly series by @TxID_Fellows, #TxIDProfileTuesday #TxIDProfileTuesday highlights a leader in #TxID, sharing why they love #TxID & giving their best advice to trainees! Join us for March's #TxIDProfileTuesday featuring @jonathanhandMD!

Every time an infectious disease consult note is copy pasted into a discharge summary, the ID specialist should get $50

"We should be investing in fortifying our health care system so that, when the next pandemic arrives, frontline workers won’t need to become heroes," says IDSA member Timothy Sullivan, MD, FIDSA in a new op-ed published in @thehill. bit.ly/3Yu40ek

COVID, Hurricane Sandy and a future without ‘health care heroes’ thehill.com/opinion/healthca… #MedTwitter #IDTwitter

Reducing cancer and opioid deaths will only be possible with a strong infectious diseases workforce coupled with federal investments, says IDSA President @CarlosdelRio7 in response to @POTUS's 2023 health priorities. Our statement: bit.ly/3JN46ZX #ValueofID #SOTU2023

The “Fauci effect” isn’t enough to draw doctors to the undervalued practice of infectious diseases vox.com/science-and-health/2…

Happy to share our experience treating Tuberculosis without use of rifampin in transplanted patients. We believe that the paradigm of rifampin should be challenged in patients with risk of cumbersome PK interactions. doi.org/10.1111/tid.13949

Just 56% of ID fellowship programs filled all of their open positions this year. "It's very unusual for us not to fill," said @Armstrws of @EmoryDeptofMed. "Far too many programs, including long-established programs, were in a similar boat." bit.ly/3jfGG4f #MATCH2023

AI-generated clinical documentation may be a huge time-saver for ID physicians (and others) in the future #ChatGPT already generates decent ID consult notes from simple prompts #IDTwitter

In this study by @TimSullivanMD, Twitter data, natural language processing and deep learning were used to identify and map outpatient antibiotic misuse in the United States. #antibioticstewardship #AntimicrobialResistance bit.ly/3ddACjT