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4 hospitals, 4 compliance trainings for the doctor? Not anymore

The AMA wants doctors to get reciprocal credit for completing compliance training at other facilities. Some hospitals are taking up the idea.

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Speaker Lisa Egbert, MD, and Vice Speaker John Armstrong, MD, during opening session of 2023 Interim Meeting of HOD
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Highlights from the 2023 AMA Interim Meeting

Track the news and key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting, which ran Nov. 10–14.

Interim Meeting
HOD business session at the 2023 Interim Meeting
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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.

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Prior Authorization
Fighting for Physicians
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Pearl of the Week: Add flexibility to patient scheduling

Find resources on how to repurpose leftover time through wave scheduling.

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AMA STEPS Forward®
AMA STEPS Forward® Pearl of the Week
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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Physician Health
AMA Update
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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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Physician Health
AMA Update Podcast
Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, speech at 2023 Interim Meeting of the House of Delegates.
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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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Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians
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Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, address at the 2023 Interim Meeting of the HOD

In an address to the AMA House of Delegates at the 2023 AMA Interim Meeting, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, discusses the AMA’s advocacy work on Medicare payment reform. Access the recording and transcript of the speech.

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Pearl of the Week: Be proactive with high-risk patients

Find resources on ways a patient care registry can bolster quality improvement efforts.

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AMA STEPS Forward®
AMA STEPS Forward® Pearl of the Week