Blood pressure monitoring can go a long way. The AMA website provides resources to help.
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3 Min Read

Up your MIPS score by tallying efforts to prevent chronic disease

Two step-by-step guides help doctors score well under the 2018 Merit-based Incentive Payment System for what they do to prevent heart disease and diabetes.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Don’t miss these CME opportunities before the year ends

Looking to obtain CME credit for 2018? Here are some intriguing CME options to consider.

AMA PRA Credit System
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Looking at global perspectives for diabetes prevention

Charles Alessi, MD, chief clinical officer for HIMSS International, details the importance of a global perspective in preventing diabetes.

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Prevention & Wellness
Leadership Thoughts
A female nutrionist educating a group on diet.
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Targeting populations to overcome barriers in diabetes prevention

This ACO’s integrated, community-based approach to helping their patients with diabetes and prediabetes has reaped rewards and can serve as a model.

Prevention & Wellness
Internist Niva Lubin-Johnson, MD
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2 ways to spark change in minority patients and prevent diabetes

Longtime AMA member Niva Lubin-Johnson, MD, talks about how to manage patients with prediabetes and diabetes to improve health outcomes for minority patients.

Health Equity
AMA Executive Vice President and CEO James L. Madara, MD
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3 Min Read

Time to flip construct and put patients, doctors first: AMA CEO

James L. Madara, MD, tells delegates how the AMA’s strategy is built around the changing needs of patients and incorporates physician perspective into new technology.

Leadership
Sugary soda being poured from can into a glass.
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Pennsylvania’s highest court to determine sugary-drink tax’s fate

The AMA says the tax helps lower obesity rates and that ruling against it could also jeopardize nontax initiatives to improve the public’s health.

Chronic Diseases
Physician weighing male patient on scale.
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Prediabetes screening, referral can help you succeed in MIPS

Earn points in Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System for the work your practice does to identify patients with prediabetes and refer them to evidence-based prevention programs.

Payment & Delivery Models
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2 Min Read

AMA urges more patients to learn their risk for type 2 diabetes

On Diabetes Alert Day, the AMA highlights ongoing public service campaign aimed at encouraging the public to take a one-minute online prediabetes risk test.

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