AMA Member Benefits for Group Practices
Special membership dues rates are available to participating group practices.
| Your AMA membership includes: | How this benefits you: | Member savings: | Complimentary for members: |
| Live support from the AMA’s Practice Management Center (PMC) | The PMC can provide members assistance via e-mail or telephone with these issues: • fair contracting • accurate payment • practice efficiency • managing their data and profile • establishing and updating fee schedules |
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| Expert support through CPT® Network |
• Knowledge Base access online: quickly research a database of more than 5,000 commonly asked coding questions and answers, as well as reference for clinical examples. ($250 value) • Six free inquires: submit your coding question directly to an expert and receive a customized response “straight from the source.” ($480 value) • Search CPT code/relative value by geographic location, Category II and III code updates, medical abbreviations, place of service codes, coding additions, deletions and revisions any time you need them. |
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| Access to the National Managed Care Contract (NMCC) database | Online reference and database helps you analyze and negotiate contracts with insurers and hold them accountable to their agreements. | X |
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| Health Insurer Code of Conduct | AMA Health Insurer Code of Conduct and physician resource assists you in monitoring health insurer compliance. | X | |
| AMA Health IT Resources | Access AMA’s detailed health information technology learning and assessment tools. We’ll help you weigh costs and benefits of implementing health IT solutions. (Includes AMAGINE™ physician portal for health IT solutions.) | X | X |
| AMA HIPAA School | Convenient online courses satisfy training requirements for practice staff who work with protected health information (PHI). | X | |
| Subscription to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)* | Read up on the latest research and evidence-based trends in medicine, health care and public health. ($165 value) Plus 9 specialty Archives Journals online. (up to $180 value per journal) *Free JAMA/Archives online CME program included |
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| Powerful advocacy | The AMA’s work on issues such as Medicare physician payments, medical staff privileges, medical liability issues, peer review and scope of practice protects your interests and the patient-physician relationship. | X | |
| Savings on AMA books and products | Save up to 25% on personal and professional topics from the AMA Bookstore. Your group also has access to a dedicated account manager for personalized service. | X | |
| RealTime patient satisfaction survey solution | Inform your practice’s quality improvement efforts with Real Time, the online patient experience survey that gives you feature-rich tools to effectively track the satisfaction of your patients. | X | |
| AMA Member Value Program | The AMA has partnered with a number of different vendors to offer members-only savings on transportation, financial services, cash flow management, medical supplies and more. | X | |
| AMA Insurance and financial services products | • The new Physicians 401k can offer savings of 30-40% compared to stand-alone plans • Individual wealth management & financial planning services include access to annuities, IRAs, Roth IRAs and cash value life insurance • Individual insurance products include disability income, term life insurance and long-term care (many with discounted pricing) *The Physicians 401k, wealth management and financial planning services are offered through Millennium Brokerage Group, LLC, an approved member of AMA Insurance Agency’s Physician Financial Partners program. |
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