Patient decision aids might help with routine health choices. The science of decision-making also can help navigate ethically complex choices.
Maternal and fetal medicine fellow Tani Malhotra, MD, knows the fear felt by mothers with opioid-use disorder. She’s working to make better policy to address it.
Transform your practice’s efficiency by making these key workflow and staffing adjustments.
Discover practices and processes that can reduce gender bias in hiring, promotion, leadership and inclusivity.
AMA educational series for GME faculty covers the fight against burnout and how to develop professionalism and improve the learning environment in residency.
An ambitious project aims to simplify the ob-gyn Match process by reducing applications and creating a more equitable interview invitation system.
Before residency ends, use this resource to create a practical, personalized plan for the critical next step in your medical career.
AMA member Jordan Warchol, MD, finds the most rewarding part of being an emergency physician is getting to help people on one of the worst days of their lives.
Learn how the AMA has fought this year to preserve the patient-physician relationship, keep government out of the exam room, and maintain liability reforms.
Relentlessly working to advance important state legislative issues that protect patients and physicians.
Drive in style with preferred savings when you buy, lease or rent a car.
Find savings to help organize personal finances and manage debt.
Join an education session offered during the 2019 Interim Meeting.
The combination of powerful technologies and physicians’ distinctively human capabilities can advance medicine, James L. Madara, MD, tells delegates.
See how the Council on Long Range Planning & Development (CLRPD) studies long-term strategic issues related to AMA’s vision, goals and priorities.
The Council on Long Range Planning and Development (CLRPD) works on projects based on actions of the AMA House of Delegates or Board of Trustees.
Some of the current projects of the CLRPD include:
Find highlights and documents from the 2019 APS Interim Meeting in San Diego.
Find highlights and documents from the 2019 IMGS Interim Meeting in San Diego.
AMA member Spurgeon William Clark III, MD, remembers how patients would publicly thank his ophthalmologist father for helping them see again. He’s built upon that foundation of excellence.
AMA member Jennifer J. Bryan, MD, has made history as the first woman elected to chair her state medical association’s board of trustees.
Medicare Pay Cuts highlights cuts in payment rates for the year, how to avoid penalties, the AMA's fight against the Independent Payment Advisory Board provision, and the latest on other issues and laws.
Medicare
The AMA will take a deeper dive into one aspect of the proposal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Gain more insight into the AMA's successful fight to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board provision of the Affordable Care Act.
New payment rates went into effect on Jan. 1, 2018 for rapid point-of-care testing performed in a physician’s office.
Payment & Delivery Models
Physicians must score a minimum of 15 points in 2018 to avoid a Medicare pay cut in 2020. An AMA resource shows how to do it.
Doctors support the Medicare “Patients Over Paperwork” initiative, but warn that proposed E/M pay changes could hurt doctors caring for the sickest patients.
Read about the significant changes that could affect your pay and administrative burdens under Medicare.
Economics
Bill includes funds for Community Health Centers, National Health Service Corps and Teaching Health Center GME, but cuts Prevention and Public Health Fund.
Leadership
Proposed physician payment cuts in federal spending package before Congress threaten to undermine Medicare improvement efforts already underway.
