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Private Practice Group Membership Program
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Physician cheat sheet: All your AMA membership questions answered

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AMA Business of Medicine education program
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HIPAA privacy & security resources

Download resources in PDF and DOCX format to help you manage your compliance with required HIPAA privacy and security rules. Learn how to participate in a formal HIPAA compliance plan.

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Keep your practice doors open

The AMA fights to keep private practice a viable option for physicians. We're working to remove unnecessary burdens and reclaim the time you need to focus on patients.

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Behind Oregon’s first-in-nation law curbing corporate medicine

Amid rise of health care-delivery consolidation, new state law reshapes how business entities are permitted to engage in the practice of medicine.

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AMA STEPS Forward®: Private practice

This collection of AMA STEPS Forward® resources offers the resources physicians need to start and sustain a successful private practice.

AMA STEPS Forward®
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AMA STEPS Forward® Innovation Academy

Customize your practice transformation journey through a variety of open access online resources including webinars, toolkits, playbooks, boot camps, virtual panel discussions and expert speaking engagements—watch the video to learn more. 

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Finding my place in medicine: David Aizuss, MD, ophthalmologist

In his private practice medical group, Dr. Aizuss can control his schedule, consult with talented colleagues and count on work-life balance.

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Transition to Attending
Finding My Place in Medicine
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Practice ownership linked to physicians’ use of telehealth

Differences emerge among physicians who work in private practice compared with those in hospital-owned settings. Dive deeper with a new AMA report.

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CMS launches modernized physician ACO model

The new model design could help small, rural and specialist physician practices take part in ACOs and improve care for patients with complex needs.

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Payment & Delivery Models
Fighting for Physicians
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Aggregators are helping private practices flourish. Learn how.

It took several years, but a family medicine physician finally found the right partner for implementing value-based care. She shares what to look for.

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Want to save time in your practice? There’s a playbook for that

The doctors in your private practice can work smarter, not harder, by implementing innovative strategies gathered in AMA’s “Saving Time Playbook.” 

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