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AMA offers 10 recommendations for successful New Year’s resolutions

With the new year approaching, the American Medical Association is offering recommendations to help Americans make healthy lifestyle choices in 2018.

Press Releases
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7 ways to speed development of Medicare APMs

A different direction for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation can lead to more viable ways to participate in new payment models.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Dec. 14, 2017: National Advocacy Update

Tax reform conference committee, Aetna-CVS merger, student-loan legislation and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Nov. 30, 2017: State Advocacy Update

Study looks at opioids and rhinoplasty, NCOIL model bill on out-of-network care and more in AMA's latest state and local advocacy efforts.

Advocacy Update
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For patients struggling with opioids, ED visit can mark new start

Emergency departments emerge as places where opioid-use disorder treatment can be initiated and longer-term care coordinated.

Behavioral Health
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Amid an epidemic, these physicians are taking action

Doctors encourage non-opioid approaches to pain and safe disposal of unwanted meds, and change the approach to post-surgical prescribing.

Behavioral Health
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Nov. 16, 2017: State Advocacy Update

Maine votes to expand Medicaid, Indiana educational webinars on opioids and more in the latest round of state and local advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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AMA: Eliminate burdens for controlled substances’ e-prescribing

Delegates also push for effective opioid-use disorder in jails and prisons and emergency naloxone in public settings.

Interim Meeting
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Time to adopt view of opioid-use disorder as chronic disease

Stigmatization and payers’ use of prior authorization can make it harder to deliver evidence-based treatment to the patients who need it.

Behavioral Health