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7 Min Read

Mantra to cut practice stress: Patient’s next visit starts today

Learn more from the AMA about how optimize the way your physician practice plans an upcoming patient visit and prepare for the next.

Sustainability
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3 Min Read

Medicine’s administrative burdens create openings for innovation

Health care company executives say physician pain points are driving their attempts to create systems that work better for patients and doctors.

Digital
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3 Min Read

AMA issues checklist for the transition to E/M office visit changes

AMA helping physician practices integrate fundamental changes to the coding and documentation of evaluation and management (E/M) office visit services.

Press Releases
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3 Min Read

New process takes AMA Guides into the future

AMA Guides Editorial Panel process will help ensure collaboration among stakeholders and the best possible information for making impairment evaluations.

Press Releases
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5 Min Read

Cut burnout by following these 3 steps to optimize the EHR

EHR satisfaction improves when you take administrative burdens off physicians and maximize the system’s automation capabilities. Find out how.

Digital
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2 Min Read

Relief from administrative burden key to proposed Medicare fee schedule

The AMA appreciates Administrator Seema Verma and CMS proposing policy changes that prioritize patients over paperwork and let doctors be doctors.

Press Releases
Performance speedometer
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5 Min Read

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.

Private Practices
Photo of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma speaking at the AMA House of Delegates 2019 Annual Meeting.
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2 Min Read

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.

Medicare & Medicaid
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14 Min Read

AMA president applauds members moving medicine forward

In her address at the AMA Annual Meeting, AMA President Barbara L. McAneny today outlined a number of advocacy victories from the past year.

Press Releases