"Transformational change continues in the delivery of healthcare, and physicians are responding by re-evaluating their practice arrangements," AMA President Barbara McAneny, MD, said in a news release. "Physicians must assess many factors and carefully determine for themselves what settings they find professionally rewarding when...National News
Over 60 healthcare legislatures joined in sending a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma regarding an interpretation of National Coverage Determination (NCD) for next-generation sequencing (NGS) that would limit accessibility to certain testing.
The Jan. 31 letter expressed explicit...National News
According to the American Medical Association the words patients and physicians use to describe the current prior authorization process: Time-consuming, tedious and horrendous.
During its annual meeting of delegates, The American Medical Association announced it wants government officials to carefully consider evidence that prior...National News
This past weekend, Nov. 10 - 13, the American Medical Association (AMA) held their annual House of Delegates 2018 Interim Meeting to talk policy changes including those on gender identification fluidity, public health data collection, identification for the homeless and the detention of migrant children.
AMA President Barbara L....National News
CMS set the performance threshold at 15 points in 2018. To earn an incentive and avoid a penalty in 2020 clinicians and group practices must score above the performance threshold.
The AMA has developed a resource, “How to Avoid a Penalty in 2018 MIPS Program,” that outlines different ways that physicians in both small and large...National News
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Seema Verma received a letter signed and supported by 28 medical organizations calling for CMS to re-evaluate and consider other options to deal with the decision to suspend risk-adjustment payments.
In the letter sent to Verma, the organizations pointed out the...National News
A state appeals court has ruled to resurrect a physician-assisted suicide law in California, giving terminally ill patients the right to an option.
Nationwide, doctor-assisted suicide has proved controversial, seeing extremists from both ends of the spectrum similar in issues like abortion laws. The rule applies to adults with...National News
Health2047 is focused on creating technologies that support value-based care, data liquidity, chronic care and physician productivity.
AMA invested $15 million in Health2047 in 2016 to become the founding partner of the company.
James L. Madara, AMA Chief Executive Officer and Health2047 Board Chair is quoted in RevCycle...National News
It is an interactive tool called the "MIPS Action Plan".
MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) is one of the two components of the Quality Payment Program, which was created under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). Surveys have shown most physicians are not ready to participate in MIPS, nor do they have...
