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Policy options for states to address COVID-19

View some of the policy options, such as costs for testing, access to care and vaccines, for states to implement to address the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Infectious Diseases
AMA COVID-19 Guides
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The 12 factors that drive up physician burnout

To reduce the burden placed on doctors, health care systems must look at what external factors are adding to physician burnout. Find out more.

Physician Health
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How APIs can cut doctors’ administrative burdens, improve care

Learn why application programming interfaces (APIs)—used properly—have big potential to make clinical decision support tools more effective and less burdensome for doctors.

Digital
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AMA guide sorts though complexity of COVID-19 prior auth policies

Commercial insurance plans easing their prior authorization policies is a welcome response to COVID-19, but these changes can contain wide variations.

Prior Authorization
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March 27, 2020: State Advocacy Update

State policy options compiled for state regulators on COVID-19 and more in the latest State Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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8 terms every doctor should know about practice transformation

Understand these essential terms to cut doctor burnout and discover the AMA resources that will help your physician practice change for the better.

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Sustainability
Terms Every Doctor Should Know
Rep. Suzan DelBene, D, Wash.
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Fight to fix prior auth makes headway in Washington

Physicians have found strong allies in the effort to reform prior authorization: nearly 200 members of Congress and the head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Prior Authorization
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7 steps to cut your practice’s medication management burden

Many Americans take four prescription drugs a day—often from multiple doctors. Learn how your practice can simplify and automate medication management.

Sustainability
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5 changes to fix prior authorization that are well overdue

Unconstrained expansion of prior authorization requirements has created an exhausting burden for patients and doctors. Learn more with the AMA about the way forward.

Prior Authorization