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AMA unveils resources to help docs navigate value-based care models

To aid physicians navigating new value-based care models, the AMA announced online resources for physicians considering their choice of new payment models.

Press Releases
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The move to value-based care in medical practices: Effect on cost and quality

Wondering how your medical practice can move from fee-for-service to value-based care? One practice in North Carolina serves as an example of how team-based model affects health outcomes and costs.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Physicians tell House panel keys to new Medicare law implementation

Physician leaders testified before a House committee about the landmark Medicare reform law and necessary steps to ensure implementation is optimal for physicians and patients.

Medicare & Medicaid
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Testing new value-based health care and payment models: One program's success

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation tested a pilot program to decrease overuse of emergency. The test showed a value-based health care and payment model could reduce frequent ED visits by about 40 percent.

Payment & Delivery Models
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How doctors are developing new payment models for their specialties

New regulations under MACRA are driving many specialty physicians to proactively develop alternative payment models. The American Society for Radiation Oncology created 2 payment models that work for patients and practices.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Medical assistants take central role in team-based health care: One Stanford practice

Team-based health care reduces administrative responsibilities for physicians. At one Stanford practice, medical assistants work with patients to resolve health issues based on protocol or knowledge of individual cases.

Sustainability
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AMA says new payment model rightly focusing on care

Comprehensive Primary Plus improves upon the current model in emphasizing improvements achievable by PCPs instead of cost reductions beyond their control.

Press Releases
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Physician-led team-based care: Rethinking the “hero model” of medicine

The “hero model” of medicine places a burden on physicians to do everything themselves. Physician-led team-based care is about rethinking what work needs to be done by the physician versus what could be done by other team members.

Scope of Practice
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What a patient visit looks like under a team-based model of health care

Value-based health care strategically redistributes work in medical practices. We break down the way a highly-functional team-based model handles preparing for and conducting a patient visit.

Scope of Practice