Hawaii CME Requirements

Learn about the Hawaii Medical Board and earn your continuing medical education (CME) credits online with the AMA Ed Hub.

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June 15, 2018: National Advocacy Update

Amicus brief on ACA coverage, opioid abuse legislation and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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AMA supports modifying leave policies to be inclusive of LGBTQ workers

New policy adopted at the AMA Annual Meeting calls for inclusive family and medical leave policies to support LGBTQ workers.

Press Releases
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May 3, 2018: Judicial Advocacy Update

The AMA and other health care professional organizations argue Trump's travel ban exacerbates physician shortage, medical training and more.

Advocacy Update
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Travel ban threatens to worsen access to care

AMA joins brief supporting effort to block nationality-based restrictions on immigration and travel. Physicians from Syria and Iran alone handle 14 million patient visits annually.

Judicial Advocacy
#Best of 2017 Litigation, Justice statue in front of law books.
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Top cases show physicians had a forceful ally in the courts

The Litigation Center of the American Medical Association and State Medical Societies fought existential threats, parried “artful pleadings” in 2017.

Judicial Advocacy
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Nov. 3, 2017: Judicial Advocacy Update

Learn about how the AMA is working with litigation cases on Medicaid payments for medical services, scientific testimonies on refuted theories and more.

Advocacy Update
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“Arbitrary” action has doctor on hook for $205,000 in bonus pay

A Hawaii court will decide what makes a physician eligible for higher Medicaid primary care payments. The outcome could worsen a physician shortage.

Judicial Advocacy
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Health insurance markets are highly concentrated, new report reveals

Even though two mega-mergers were blocked, most commercial health insurance markets are highly concentrated, and many are dominated by one insurer.

Access to Care
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Metro areas increasingly dominated by single insurance companies

Findings of the 2017 edition of AMA’s Competition in Health Insurance: A Comprehensive Study of U.S. Markets which examines market concentration in 2016.

Press Releases