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How doctors are developing new payment models for their specialties

New regulations under MACRA are driving many specialty physicians to proactively develop alternative payment models. The American Society for Radiation Oncology created 2 payment models that work for patients and practices.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Medical assistants take central role in team-based health care: One Stanford practice

Team-based health care reduces administrative responsibilities for physicians. At one Stanford practice, medical assistants work with patients to resolve health issues based on protocol or knowledge of individual cases.

Sustainability
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AMA says new payment model rightly focusing on care

Comprehensive Primary Plus improves upon the current model in emphasizing improvements achievable by PCPs instead of cost reductions beyond their control.

Press Releases
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Referring patients to diabetes prevention program: One practice's story

Find out how a practice in Minnesota used a local diabetes prevention program to help their patients stop the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Prevention & Wellness
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From meaningful use to MACRA: What you need to know now

AMA board chair comments on new quality reporting and payment system for Medicare. Urges physicians to understand meaningful use and implementation of MACRA to determine future course of their practices.

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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Physician-led team-based care: Rethinking the “hero model” of medicine

The “hero model” of medicine places a burden on physicians to do everything themselves. Physician-led team-based care is about rethinking what work needs to be done by the physician versus what could be done by other team members.

Scope of Practice
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Government announces “groundbreaking effort” to prevent diabetes

Medicare will soon cover diabetes prevention programs. When more than 11 million seniors have diabetes and another 26 million have prediabetes, this government announcement of preventive care is truly groundbreaking.

Prevention & Wellness
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What a patient visit looks like under a team-based model of health care

Value-based health care strategically redistributes work in medical practices. We break down the way a highly-functional team-based model handles preparing for and conducting a patient visit.

Scope of Practice
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New Jersey Supreme Court case could expose physicians to large fines

The Supreme Court of New Jersey is reviewing a case about insurance fraud and a physician’s referral of patients to health care facilities where they have financial relationships. At issue is if fraud is based on what the medical group or practice should have known, as opposed to what they actually knew.

Judicial Advocacy