Medicare alternative payment models for primary care

MACRA advocacy provides physicians with flexibility and more payment options

AMA prior authorization advocacy: reform and provide-insurer consensus

8 ways to improve health care price transparency

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Patient Support & Advocacy

Physicians will keep fighting on these 6 key issues in 2020

Health care policy debates must include the trusted voices of doctors advocating for their patients, says AMA President Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA.

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Payment & Delivery Models

What is value-based care? These are the key elements

The physician’s pen is one of the most expensive pieces of technology in medicine. Learn how to identify, measure and promote high-value care with the AMA.

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Sustainability

Myth or fact? Ancillary staff can't document parts of E/M services

Medicare does not require doctors to redocument information in a patient’s record that has already been documented by staff or by patients themselves.

Medicaid

Strengthening Medicaid

Read about the AMA's efforts to improve Medicaid programs and expand coverage options for low-income patients.

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Private Practices

How your private practice can target population health

A systematic focus on treating patients with chronic conditions will position practices to deliver better care and keep pace with a new payment model.

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Payment & Delivery Models

At Ochsner, innovation happens inside and outside system’s walls

Much has changed since it was founded in 1942, but Ochsner Health System has kept alive its legacy as a physician-run group focused on seeking better answers.

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Judicial Advocacy

Where the AMA stands on 7 of the year’s biggest health care issues

From the E/M overhaul to the opioid epidemic, here’s how the AMA has shown itself to be the physician’s powerful ally in health care this year.

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Diabetes

Medicare’s diabetes prevention benefit: What doctors should know

New CME from the AMA offers insight into helping your patients take advantage of Medicare’s new payment for diabetes prevention programs.

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Essential Advocacy Tools & Resources

Payment reform: Council on Medical services reports

Medicare physician payment schedules

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