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Model checklist: Physician-employer engagement: Direct-to-Employer arrangements

Use a checklist to assess your practice capabilities and if direct-to-employer arrangements can benefit your practice.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Snapshot: Physician-employer engagement: Direct-to-Employer arrangements

Get a snapshot overview of how physicians can partner with employers in Direct-to-Employer arrangements, and how this arrangement can benefit their practices.

Payment & Delivery Models
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6 ways to improve Medicare Advantage physician networks

Medicare Advantage keeps growing, but beneficiaries face shrinking networks, networks suddenly dropping their doctors and a false illusion of choice.

Medicare & Medicaid
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Dec. 6, 2019: National Advocacy Update

Violence against transgender individuals, transparency in health care pricing, and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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4 Min Read

3 must-do’s for the move to value-based care

Universal agreement on how to define and measure “value” in medicine remains elusive. But doctors and others find consensus on keys to the way forward.

Payment & Delivery Models
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4 Min Read

Medicaid fraud: Case would wrongly expand physician liability

If trial conviction stands, having no knowledge of how others billed Medicaid for your services would no longer be a viable defense when false-claim allegations arise.

Judicial Advocacy
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5 things doctors need to know about 2020 Medicare fee schedule

A slightly heavier lift from physicians will be required to avoid penalties and earn bonuses under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System.

Medicare & Medicaid
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Nov. 14, 2019: Advocacy spotlight on 5 things doctors need to know about 2020 Medicare fee schedule

5 things doctors need to know about 2020 Medicare fee schedule: The AMA's experts have prepared a summary of the 2020 changes to QPP and Medicare physician payment.

Advocacy Update
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Medicare Advantage contracts can be vehicle to drive improvement

Medicare Advantage contracts enable innovation that aligns the values of patients and physicians—and may reduce burnout in the process.

Payment & Delivery Models