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Anthem, Inc, AMA collab to create positive change to health system

AMA and Anthem, Inc. will collaborate on solutions that drive high-value experience for patients, physicians, other health care professionals and health plans.

Press Releases
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Feb. 22, 2018: State Advocacy Update

Aetna's prior authorization program under scrutiny and MAT helps reduce post-incarceration fatal opioid-related overdoses in the latest AMA state advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Physicians, payers collaborate on prior-authorization relief

Doctors, pharmacists, other providers and payers commit to work together to ease prior authorization’s treatment delays, administration burdens.

Prior Authorization
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7 ways to speed development of Medicare APMs

A different direction for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation can lead to more viable ways to participate in new payment models.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Actions taken to quantify, cut the burdens of prior authorization

Processing prior-authorization requests is among a medical practice’s top administrative burdens, but steps are being taken to reduce the problem.

Prior Authorization
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Physicians protected from health plan credit card fees

Three-year advocacy effort pays off as CMS explicitly spells out what payers must do regarding virtual credit card and EFT payments to physicians.

Claims Processing
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Family doctors spend 86 minutes of “pajama time” with EHRs nightly

A big chunk of the administrative work physicians do on EHRs could be properly delegated to other members of the practice team.

Digital
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Type & click tasks drain half the primary care workday

New research finds that primary care physicians spend more than half of their workday at a computer screen performing data entry and other tasks with EHRs.

Press Releases
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Health care CEOs to peers: Act on burnout, restore medicine’s joy

“More than words are needed” to address improve physician well-being, say some of the nation’s most prominent health care executives.

Physician Health