Physician and patient wearing face masks
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CMS flexibility provides practices relief on 2020 MIPS reporting

Doctors have until Dec. 31 to apply for relief from the administrative burdens associated with the CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System for 2020.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Nov. 13, 2020: Advocacy spotlight on Tell Congress now is not the time to cut Medicare payments

Tell Congress now is not the time to cut Medicare payments in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.

Advocacy Update
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Nov. 6, 2020: National Advocacy Update

FBI warns of "imminent cybercrime threat" to U.S. hospitals and health care providers and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of Oct. 26, 2020

In the news: COVID-19 cases in the U.S., USPSTF draft recommendation for colorectal cancer screening, requirement for insurers to disclose prices.

Publications & Newsletters
U.S. Capitol building at night
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Bipartisan House majority backs move to avert possible E/M cuts

Many specialists are facing Medicare pay cuts as high as 11% starting in 2021 unless Congress acts to prevent application of budget-neutrality rules.

Medicare & Medicaid
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Oct. 23, 2020: National Advocacy Update

House members urge action to avert potential E/M cuts and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
A doctor speaking to an African-American mother and her child, all of them wearing masks.
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How to deliver preventive services at no cost to your patients

New AMA resources break down the preventive services available without patient cost-sharing, and how to properly code for them.

CPT®
Health care worker and patient.
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Preventive care: As pandemic stretches on, “no more time to wait”

Learn how to get patients reengaged with the screenings, checkups, immunizations and counseling they need—safely and at zero cost to the patient.

Infectious Diseases
Illustration of a doctor and a patient on crutches in an examination room.
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How the ACA lowers patients' out-of-pocket costs

Research shows how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has lowered low-income trauma patients’ odds of being hit with catastrophically large bills.

Access to Care