Activities in the private sector
ALERT: Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Data Breach
Hot issues
Check out emerging issues with health insurers.
Practice Management Center
The PMC provides physicians and their staff with a number of educational tools and resources to address private payer and practice management issues.
Health Insurer Settlements
Information on the UHG (Ingenix), Multi-District Litigation and Blue Cross and Blue Shield settlements.
File a complaint
Have a complaint against an insurer? The AMA has made it easy to file a complaint with your State Department of Insurance, State Medical Association and with the AMA.
PSA Toolkits
View toolkits on clinical integrity, administrative simplification, fair contracting, timely and accurate payment and defensible fee schedules.
Administrative Simplification
Learn what the AMA is doing to address the ongoing problems in the claims management revenue cycle that contribute to increased complexity and expense.
Legislative/Regulatory issues
Access antitrust educational tools and learn about AMA advocacy efforts on this issue.
Practice Data/Ranking
A variety of resources related to pay for performance and profiling of physicians by health insurers.
Medicare Advantage
There have been many changes to Medicare's managed care program as a result of the passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), which will mean more choices for patients - and more questions for physicians.
