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Private Practices

3 overlooked ways to make your private practice more efficient

Conduct better team meetings, plan ahead for smoother patient visits and make prescription renewals a once-a-year task.
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Private Practices

How to create a vibrant culture in your private practice

Private practice offers you a chance for real leadership and autonomy in medicine. Find out how to strengthen your leadership skills and achieve excellence in team-based care.
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Digital

Health care AI must boost the quadruple aim to move forward

Use of augmented intelligence (AI) in health care is evolving rapidly, and the AMA is proactively addressing key issues related to standards, clinical validation, liability and usability.
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Medicare

Verma: CMS seeks less health care regulation, more competition

In a speech to the AMA House of Delegates, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma touts agency’s efforts to cut physicians’ administrative burdens.
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Private Practices

3 keys to getting paid and thriving in private practice

So you’ve decided an employment setting isn’t the right fit for you? That makes close attention to payment an even bigger priority.

Private Practices

The AMA path to private practice

Follow the AMA path to private practice for the steps you can take for a successful private practice.
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Research

Employed physicians now exceed those who own their practices

AMA survey reveals milestone, but many doctors still thrive in private practice and the trend toward hospital ownership of practices has slowed in recent years.

Press Releases

Employed physicians outnumber self-employed

For the first time in U.S., employed physicians outnumber self-employed physicians, according to an updated study by the AMA.

Essential Tools & Resources

Obtaining a medical license

State medical licensure

Physician financial transparency

CPT coding resources

Personal online brand

Starting, Buying, & Owning the Medical Practice (E-book)

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