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HOD business session at the 2023 Interim Meeting

Prior Authorization

Nov 13, 2023 ·

Who’s making the call on prior authorization?

Many clinicians involved in prior authorization are not physicians with proper training as medical decision-makers. The AMA says that’s got to change.

AMA Update for Nov. 13, 2023: The AMA is bringing medicine together to eliminate burnout with Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH

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The AMA is bringing medicine together to eliminate burnout with Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about what the AMA is doing to eliminate physician burnout.

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Nov 13, 2023 ·

The AMA is bringing medicine together to eliminate burnout with Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about what the AMA is doing to eliminate physician burnout.

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Prior Authorization

Nov 13, 2023 ·

7 prior authorization terms that drive every doctor to distraction

Consult this handy glossary to better grasp the frustrating cost-control practice and learn how the AMA leads the charge to fix prior authorization.

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Nov 10, 2023 ·

Medicare pay cuts are “too deep, too relentless”: AMA president

AMA President Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, says “too many lives” are touched by the broken Medicare physician pay system. That includes his own parents.

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