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Pearl of the Week: Optimize the role of the medical assistant

Find resources on optimizing the role and leveraging skills of your medical assistant.

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AMA STEPS Forward® Pearl of the Week
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How Baptist Health made value-based care a reality

For Baptist Health Medical Group in Kentucky, Southern Indiana and Illinois, the path to effective value-based care started with a single sheet of paper.

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Health System Spotlight
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Message from Congress to doctors: “Keep up the pressure”

California Rep. Ami Bera, MD, and other House members say physicians’ voices are powerful on Medicare pay, prior authorization and other key issues.

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Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians
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March 22, 2024: Advocacy Update spotlight on Change Healthcare cyberattack

Change Healthcare cyberattack: What physicians need to know and more in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.

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March 22, 2024: Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update

MedPAC recommends inflation-based Medicare physician payment update for 2025 and more in the latest Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update.

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March 22, 2024: National Advocacy Update

Bipartisan members of Congress push for proper implementation of No Surprises Act and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

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Don’t override state scope of practice laws in the VA

The VA’s Federal Supremacy Project, which threatens to undermine physician-led care, also lacks transparency and non-VA physician involvement.

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Scope of Practice
Fighting for Physicians
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They’re back: Wide array of scope creep bills proposed in 2024

The AMA helped defeat more than 100 bills to expand nonphysician providers’ scope of practice in 2023. Learn about this year’s legislative trends.

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Scope of Practice
Fighting for Physicians
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AMA: MedPAC’s call for higher Medicare payments should spur Congress

AMA welcomes MedPAC’s recommendation for a physician payment update.

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