The inaugural issue of JAMA Network Open has been published, with articles exemplifying the breadth of areas that readers should come to expect to see covered in the new journal—oncology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, pediatrics and cardiology.

The open-access journal, announced last year, is the 13th journal in the JAMA Network and the third journal launched by the AMA in the last three years. JAMA Oncology was launched in 2015, followed by JAMA Cardiology in 2016.

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More than half of physicians who responded to a recent survey (52 percent) noted they have a patient who encounters coverage issues because of inaccurate payer directories every single month.

The inaccuracies have prompted a regulatory response. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and state legislative bodies have issued regulations to ensure physician directory accuracy across the industry. Additionally, there is substantial variability among state rules.

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