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Specialty Profiles

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5 Min Read

What it's like to be in sports medicine: Shadowing Dr. Vasudevan

As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it’s like to specialize in physical medicine and rehabilitation? Meet John Vasudevan, MD, a physiatrist who shares what his practice is like and offers advice about his specialty.

Specialty Profiles

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3 Min Read

What it's like to be in physical medicine and rehabilitation: Shadowing Dr. Wolfe

Choosing your specialty is an important decision. Find out what it’s like to specialize in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Dr. Claire Wolfe shares insights on her field of practice, work/life balance and more.

Academic Physicians

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3 Min Read

Academic physicians have a new home in the AMA

The AMA Section on Medical Schools (SMS) changed its name. Its new name, the Academic Physicians Section, reflects a refined focus to better meet the needs of today’s academic physicians, medical educators and faculty.

AMA PRA Credit System

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3 Min Read

Physicians take on MOC debate

The maintenance of certification process was an important topic for physicians attending the 2015 AMA Annual Meeting. Academic physicians had a chance to hear updates on MOC before the AMA House of Delegates considered policy to urge changes to make it more transparent and physician-friendly.

Chronic Diseases

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2 Min Read

How to talk to your patients about melanoma

The rate of new cases of melanoma has doubled over the last three decades, reaching 9,000 each year. The start of summer is an important time to talk to your patients about prevention and screening measures for melanoma.

Claims Processing

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2 Min Read

6 ways your practice can save by using electronic transactions

More medical practices are improving their revenue cycle by accepting electronic remittance advice, an electronic version of a paper explanation of payment. See what 6 ways your practice can benefit from their use. A newly updated AMA toolkit offers the insights you need.

Ethics

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2 Min Read

PM&R: A look at ethics in the “quality-of-life specialty”

Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) helps patients manage serious medical and life issues. The June issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics takes a close look at ethical issues in the “quality-of-life specialty.”

Claims Processing

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2 Min Read

Virtual credit cards could be costing you 5% of your payments

More health plans are paying claims with virtual credit cards (VCC). Physicians might not be aware of hidden fees which could be costing you 5% of your payments. You may be losing a significant amount of your contractual payments to high interchange fees charged by the credit card company.