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AMA Update 420: 2024 advocacy agenda: Medicare payment cuts, fixing prior auth and more

13 de febrero de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:14:12 0 Comments

How the AMA is addressing the most significant problems facing doctors in medicine today: Medicare payment reform, fixing prior authorization, reducing physician burnout, as well as making healthcare technology an asset not a burden. AMA Senior Vice President of Advocacy Todd Askew joins AMA CXO Todd Unger for a live chat at this year’s National Advocacy Conference.

🗣 Get involved! Tell Congress to fix Medicare now: https://fixmedicarenow.org/

❓ Check out AMA’s Medicare Basics series to get all your Medicare questions answered: https://bit.ly/AMA_MedicareBasics

💸 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and more Medicare explained updates here: https://medicare-reform.ama-assn.org/

🆓 Wondering what is the Medicare cut for 2024? Medicare resources for doctors and Medicare PDF free download: https://fixmedicarenow.org/resources

📰 For the latest Medicare news, visit: https://fixmedicarenow.org/news

🌟 Learn more about the Physician Grassroots Network and become a #VIP – Very Influential Physician: https://physiciansgrassrootsnetwork.org/vip

📨 Stay up to date on all the latest advocacy news by subscribing to AMA Advocacy Update: https://bit.ly/AMA_AdvocacyUpdate

🥼 Check out the AMA Recovery Plan for America’s Physicians: https://bit.ly/AMA_RecoveryPlan

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

AMA Update 419: The latest long COVID news, rising flu cases and funding for gun violence prevention research

12 de febrero de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:12:41 0 Comments

Is it flu season right now? Is long COVID dangerous? In this episode: long COVID in children and how the number one cause of child death in the US lacks clinical research funding.

Our guest is AMA’s Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🦠 CDC COVID Tracker map, charts, and data : https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

🗺️ CDC flu tracker map and weekly FluView Influenza Summary Update: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm

💧 COVID Wastewater data via CDC National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS): https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/index.html

🔬 New long COVID study data from American Academy of Pediatrics journal on Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in Children: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2023-062570/196606/Postacute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-in-Children

💉 Searching for «COVID vaccine near me», «flu shots near me» or wondering «is it too late to get the flu shot»? It’s not! Find vaccines in your area at: https://www.vaccines.gov/find-vaccines/

📬 Wondering «where can I get a free COVID test»? Free COVID-19 tests by mail still available, USPS order free COVID test kits: https://www.covid.gov/tests

🧪 Check FDA COVID test expiration date extensions here: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/home-otc-covid-19-diagnostic-tests#list

🥼 CDC Chief Medical Officer, Debra Houry, MD, MPH previous episode available here: https://youtu.be/kErhUXLo8UA?si=MZ-qvMXDBG5ZMw6A

📈 CDC gun violence statistics and firearm violence prevention research: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/index.html

💻 #AMAEdHub Firearm Safety, Injury Treatment and Risk Factors CME course: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/course/316

🟣 Learn more about AMA gun violence prevention advocacy: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/ama-task-force-confront-health-care-crisis-gun-violence

📺 Chair of the AMA Gun Violence Task Force discusses what can be done to reduce gun violence: https://youtu.be/nDCQeSGKtLY?si=FseiZe89PEwwbFiA

❤️‍🩹 Learn more about firearm safety, suicide prevention and how to stop gun violence: https://youtu.be/aZmbv9XCZNs?si=a5XObOh7i73qqWB8

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

AMA Update 418: Should AI be used in health care? Risks, regulations, ethics and benefits of AI in medicine

9 de febrero de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:14:38 0 Comments

How is AI used in the medical field? Who regulates AI in healthcare? In this episode: how AI is disrupting healthcare and patient data privacy.

Our guest is Stephen Parodi, MD, executive vice president of external affairs, communications and brand at The Permanente Federation and associate executive director for The Permanente Medical Group. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

⚖️ Learn more about AMA policy and guidelines for AI in medicine: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-ai-principles.pdf

📊 How do doctors feel about AI? Find out in the AMA Augmented Intelligence Research (AI in healthcare PPT): https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/physician-ai-sentiment-report.pdf

🗞️ For more AMA AI in healthcare articles visit: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/digital/augmented-intelligence-medicine

🏥 Learn more about the AMA Health System Program here: https://bit.ly/AMA_HealthSystemProgram

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

AMA Update 417: Syphilis symptoms and causes, Bicillin shortage, cancer cases rise, and why sitting is so bad for us

7 de febrero de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:13:09 0 Comments

Why are syphilis cases on the rise? In this episode: what doctors need to know about syphilis transmission, how to treat syphilis, plus congenital syphilis.

AMA’s Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, also shares the latest cancer statistics, why cancer cases are on the rise and tips to reduce the harmful effects of sitting. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

💊 Sexually Transmitted Infections #STI CDC Treatment Guidelines: https://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment-guidelines/default.htm

🚼 For more on congenital syphilis treatment and babies born with syphilis, watch: https://youtu.be/CG3HIYVYadw?si=ufH2ByNvthLno1gJ&t=544

📈 2022 CDC STI Surveillance Report: https://www.cdc.gov/std/statistics/2022/default.htm

🦠 Who is most affected by syphilis? For more on how is syphilis spread and what populations are affected by syphilis, see CDC STDs fact sheet: https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-syphilis.htm

🪑 New study on the side effects of sitting, read Occupational Sitting Time, Leisure Physical Activity, and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2814094

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

AMA Update 416: Augmented intelligence: Pros and cons of AI in health care and clinical workflow optimization

6 de febrero de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:14:09 0 Comments

How can AI improve health care? In this episode: successful implementation of telehealth, improving medical office workflow and the future of healthcare technology.

Our guest is the AMA’s new vice president of Digital Health Innovations, Margaret Lozovatsky, MD, who also discusses why physicians must be involved in the development of the tools they use and how the AMA is working to make technology an asset to physicians and not a burden. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

📲 Learn how to create a telehealth program, get telehealth best practice guidelines, and more from the AMA Telehealth Implementation Playbook: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/digital/telehealth-implementation-playbook-overview

💻 How to improve administrative workflows in clinical practice: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/these-4-workflow-changes-help-cut-burnout-45

📊 How do doctors feel about AI? Find out in the AMA Augmented Intelligence Research report: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/physician-ai-sentiment-report.pdf

🌐 AMA Physician Innovation Network (PIN): https://innovationmatch.ama-assn.org/

🎓 AMA STEPS Forward Innovation Academy: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/ama-steps-forward/ama-steps-forward-innovation-academy

🥼 AMA efforts on reducing physician burnout: https://bit.ly/AMARecoveryPlan_Burnout

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

AMA Update 415: PFAS health effects and CDC guidelines on how to reduce PFAS exposure with Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH

2 de febrero de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:13:54 0 Comments

Where do PFAS come from? Can you get rid of PFAS in your body? In this episode, the CDC covers PFAS products, forever chemicals in food, how to avoid PFAS and what physicians need to know about PFAS symptoms.

Our guest is Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH, the director for the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Dr. Bernstein also shares guidelines for physicians on when to test for perfluoroalkyl, or, per- and polyfluorinated substances, PFAS in patients and how PFAS exposure can be harmful. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🥼 ATSDR PFAS clinical guidance: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/resources/pfas-information-for-clinicians.html

🚼 More on how PFAS affects babies, PFAS breastfeeding side effects and contaminants in breast milk (PDF): https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/docs/PFAS-Breastfeeding-H.pdf

🚰 EPA Drinking Water Health Advisories for PFOA and PFOS: https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/drinking-water-health-advisories-pfoa-and-pfos

💧 EPA PFAS regulations and Safe Drinking Water Act information: https://www.epa.gov/sdwa

🔍 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine NASEM Guidance on PFAS Exposure: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26156/guidance-on-pfas-exposure-testing-and-clinical-follow-up

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AMA Update 414: How to prevent measles, who should take Paxlovid, plus the latest research on COVID and pregnancy

31 de enero de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:11:45 0 Comments

How is measles spread? In this episode: MMR vaccine age, signs of measles, new studies on maternal COVID vaccination, who should get Paxlovid, and chronic COVID-19.

AMA’s Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, shares what doctors need to know about why measles cases are on the rise both here and abroad. Also a look at COVID vaccination during pregnancy and its positive impact on newborns, as well as new research data on the long-term effects of COVID known as «chronic COVID». American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🦠 CDC measles cases and outbreaks: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html

📋CDC measles fact sheet PDF: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/downloads/Measles-fact-sheet-508.pdf

🚼 New COVID 19 pregnancy study – Respiratory distress in SARS-CoV-2 exposed uninfected neonates followed in the COVID Outcomes in Mother-Infant Pairs (COMP) Study in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44549-5

💊 NIH website for Paxlovid drug interactions: https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/antivirals-including-antibody-products/ritonavir-boosted-nirmatrelvir–paxlovid-/paxlovid-drug-drug-interactions/

🔬 New study in Science Translational Medicine on SARS-CoV-2 viral clearance and evolution varies by type and severity of immunodeficiency: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adk1599

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AMA Update 413: What value-based care is and why everyone is talking about it with Maria Ansari, MD

29 de enero de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:12:14 0 Comments

What is value-based care? Interest in value-based care is at an all-time high. This episode gives an overview of this payment model and explores what’s driving this growing interest in it and where the conversation about value-based care is headed in 2024. Our guest is Maria Ansari, MD, CEO and executive director at The Permanente Medical Group. Dr. Ansari also provides insights into barriers to adoption for value-based care and the culture an organization needs to maintain a long-term commitment to value-based care. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🏥 Learn more about the AMA Health System Program here: https://bit.ly/AMA_HealthSystemProgram

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AMA Update 412: CMS prior authorization final rule explained with AMA President Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH

25 de enero de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:13:08 0 Comments

AMA advocacy scores a big win for prior authorization reform with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Final Prior Authorization and Interoperability Rule (CMS-0057-F). AMA President Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, joins to break down the three reasons why this final rule is so important for patients and physicians and how it is expected to save practices $15 billion over the next decade. Plus, what’s ahead for AMA advocacy efforts on prior authorization reform in 2024. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🆕 AMA President Dr. Ehrenfeld on $15 billion win for physicians to improve patient care: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/patients-physicians-score-important-win-prior-authorization-rule

📰 Read about the changes coming in CMS Interoperability Rule 2026: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/prior-authorization/15-billion-win-physicians-prior-authorization

🗣 Get involved! Patients and physicians can share prior authorization stories at: https://fixpriorauth.org/

📊 Access AMA reports and prior authorization research: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/prior-authorization/prior-authorization-research-reports

📚 Free prior authorization reform resources and model legislation: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/prior-authorization/prior-authorization-reform-resources

🏛️ Stay up to date on the AMA’s advocacy efforts to fix prior authorization: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/prior-authorization/advocacy-action-fixing-prior-authorization

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew