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9 Min Read

July 14, 2023: National Advocacy Update

 Concerns over CMS increasing prior authorization requirements and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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4 Min Read

Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of May 29, 2023

In the news: Eligible Americans lose Medicaid coverage, impact of exercise on brain health, FDA issues warning on off-brand semaglutide and more.

Publications & Newsletters
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5 Min Read

This pediatrician speaks up for Mississippi moms, infants

Hattiesburg Clinic’s Anita Henderson, MD, the MSMA, and many others spent years pushing to expand Medicaid coverage to 12 months postpartum. Now it is law.

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Population Health
Health System Spotlight
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4 Min Read

Prioritize health coverage continuity as pandemic emergency ends

Uninsured patients live sicker and die younger, and their ranks are set to grow by up to 14 million if states don’t act now to keep people covered.

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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5 Min Read

Certainty on pay is key to addressing inequities in telehealth

Discover what North Carolina Medicaid’s chief medical officer is seeing and doing to close the telehealth equity gap and remove payment barriers.

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Digital
Fighting for Physicians
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4 Min Read

Medicaid often doesn’t cover self-measured BP. Now that’s changing.

Measuring BP at home can help control hypertension and chip away at the $131 billion cost of uncontrolled blood pressure in the U.S. Learn more.

Prevention & Wellness
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4 Min Read

Ob-gyn can keep $205,000 in Medicaid pay that state tried to recoup

Extensively quoting an AMA-Hawaii Medical Association brief, state’s top court rules higher Medicaid primary care rate doesn’t hinge on specialty.

Judicial Advocacy
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4 Min Read

Feds shouldn’t reap rewards for illegal prior-auth restrictions

Imposing financial penalties for hep C drugs dispensed when Virginia’s prior-authorization rules violated federal law contradicts Medicaid’s goal.

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Judicial Advocacy
Fighting for Physicians
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19 Min Read

Your practice checklist: Trends in payor audits and disputes

In this episode of AMA Thriving in Private Practice, learn about trends in both Medicare reimbursement audits and commercial payor audits, as well as strategies for audit response.

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Private Practices
Thriving in Private Practice