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AMA Update 550: 2025 AMA advocacy priorities: Medicare payment, prior authorization, physician burnout and more

What does the American Medical Association do? Are private practices closing? When do Joy In Medicine applications open? What’s the new CMS rule on prior authorization? AMA President Bruce A. Scott, MD, joins to discuss the pressing issues facing physicians like Medicare payment reform, scope creep, prior authorization hassles, and the ongoing crisis of physician burnout. He highlights American Medical Association successes over the past year and how the AMA will fight for physicians and help patients in 2025. AMA CXO Todd Unger hosts. 

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA advocacy priorities, including:
▹ Reforming Medicare payment
▹ Fighting scope creep
▹ Fixing prior authorization
▹ Reducing physician burnout
▹ Making technology work for physicians

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AMA Update 448: The benefits of private practice in medicine and how technology helps physicians

Is it worth going into private practice? Why do some doctors prefer private practice? What are the pros and cons of private practice?

Our guest is Omar Z. Maniya, MD, MBA, CEO, of Maniya Health. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🧰 Learn how to eliminate inefficiencies in your practice with the AMA’s «Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff» tooklit: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/steps-forward/module/2757858

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

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AMA Update 355: Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff to make your private practice more efficient with Sea Chen, MD, PhD

The challenges that private practice physicians face and solutions from the American Medical Association. Sea Chen, MD, physician director of the Practice Sustainability Group at the AMA, discusses how the AMA is helping independent physicians with burnout, practice management and improvement, and learning the business skills to start and grow their practice. AMA CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🔑 Access AMA Private Practice Simple Solutions and more free resources for physicians, here: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/private-practices/ama-private-practice-simple-solutions

🆓 Download AMA’s «Private Practice Playbook: Sample Forms»: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/ama-steps-forward/private-practice-playbook-sample-forms

🎙 Listen to «Private Practice: Attending to Business» podcast episodes on AMA Ed Hub™: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/steps-forward/pages/podcast-private-practice-attending-to-business

🥼 Learn more about 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

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AMA Update 316: Youth mental health crisis: Trends & treatments with Joan Jeung, MD, MPH

Causes contributing to the youth mental health crisis, challenges in treating it and how physicians can help, with Joan Jeung, MD, MPH, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the UCSF School of Medicine. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 315: Tips to reduce your EHR inbox volume and save time with Jane Fogg, MD, MPH

A strategy and tactical tips to reduce your EHR inbox and save time. Atrius Health has reduced EHR inbox volume by 25%. Joining us to share how they did it is the physician who led the effort, Jane Fogg, MD, MPH. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 137: Tips and tools to help keep your private practice open safely with Carol Vargo

AMA CXO Todd Unger discusses ways physicians in private practice can address continued challenges posed by the pandemic and what the AMA is doing to help with AMA Director of Physician Practice Sustainability Carol Vargo.

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