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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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Business of Medicine

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Sept. 19, 2025: National Advocacy Update

Now available: 2024 MIPS performance feedback and final scores, and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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How aggregators tackle data to help practices do value-based care

Guidance from the AMA removes the guesswork from working with private entities that can help physician private practices succeed in value-based care.

Payment & Delivery Models
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AMA offers CMS a path to strengthen private practice and access to care

In comments on the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the AMA offered to work with the CMS to ensure that Medicare works for our patients and physicians.

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Power-up your private practice's revenue-cycle management

Optimizing revenue-cycle management (RCM) can mean the difference between success and failure. Get a business boost with great advice from the AMA.

Private Practices
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AMA urges alternative approaches for two flawed CMS proposals

Proposals would affect a wide array of physician specialties, hurt patient access and encourage more consolidation in health care. 

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Medicare & Medicaid
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Delivery reform: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that advocate policies on emerging delivery systems that protect and foster the patient/physician relationship. Key Council reports on this topic have addressed patient-centered medical homes, precision medicine, APMs, telemedicine, and retail and store-based health clinics.

Medical Service
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Physician employers offer big signing bonuses—but there’s a catch

A recruiting firm’s latest survey shows employers are offering big incentives to lure physicians. The same recruiter says money isn’t everything.

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AMA Physician Well-Being Program

The AMA Physician Well-Being Program empowers physicians with the knowledge, tools and resources to succeed in their chosen model of practice. Learn more.

Physician Health
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What I wish I knew in residency about private practice

It wasn’t easy for AMA member Daniel E. Choi, MD, to start his physician private practice. He wishes he’d known that it would turn out OK. Learn more.

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