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Complete PQRS with alternate reporting option

Physicians will face a 2 percent payment penalty in 2017 if they do not successfully report for Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) this year. You can take advantage of a reporting option that can help improve patient outcomes while simultaneously lessening your chances of incurring penalties.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Medical staff autonomy upheld in state supreme court ruling

A decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld important tenets of medical staff self-governance and authority in patient care that physicians have been fighting for in that state since 2012.

Judicial Advocacy
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As payment reform advances, we need physicians at forefront

Physicians are accustomed to reviewing and embracing new scientific and medical breakthroughs, but innovations on the payment side can come much more slowly.

Sustainability
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Improve quality, avoid penalties using clinical data registries

Physicians providing care to Medicare patients this year will face a 2 percent payment penalty in 2016. As the AMA works to lessen this burden, you can take advantage of a new reporting option to improve patient outcomes while simultaneously lessening your chances of incurring penalties.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Better blood pressure, no added burden: One practice's story

A Chicago-area physician has achieved a 90 percent control rate for his hypertension patients in the past year by working with his medical assistant, nurse and other staff members to execute standardized blood pressure protocols in the practice.

Prevention & Wellness
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Get exclusive sneak preview of AMA-sponsored PBS documentary

Attendees of the 2014 AMA Interim Meeting will enjoy a sneak preview of "Rx: Hope for Health Care in the U.S.: How frontline innovators are creating dramatically higher-value health care solutions" looks beyond technology and medicine, and explores a health care model focused on medicine’s fundamental mission to promote health, prevent sickness and help people live long, productive lives.

Payment & Delivery Models
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How physicians are rethinking care delivery

The way care is delivered can have drastic effects on patients’ health, even in the treatment of the same illness. One physician shares her experience in the differences between fee-for-service and value-based care, and how these differences have directly affected her patients’ health outcomes.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Medicare quality reports to compare doctors, impact payments

Physicians should look for their confidential Medicare feedback reports next month. They will detail how the cost and quality of care physicians provided to their Medicare patients last year compares to that of other physicians.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Who's leading ACOs: physicians or hospitals?

The first national survey of accountable care organizations (ACO) examines who is playing the strongest leadership and ownership roles in the development of these new models of care.

Payment & Delivery Models