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AMA hails passage of bill extending Medicare telehealth flexibilities

Increased Medicare-covered access to telehealth has been a lifeline to patients and physicians throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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AMA's advocacy efforts push for permanent telehealth advancements

Download report, action kit and issue brief PDFs—learn how the AMA pushes for permanent telehealth advancements made during the COVID-19 pandemic and supports the future of telehealth.

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Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) on legislation to help fix prior authorization

AMA's Moving Medicine series features physician voices and achievements. Learn more in this discussion on bipartisan legislation that would help ease prior authorization challenges.

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How Medicare Advantage plans wrongly deny prior auth requests

Prior-authorization requests met Medicare’s clinical coverage criteria and were still denied, the OIG found. Learn how the AMA is tackling prior auth.

Prior Authorization
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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of April 25, 2022

In the news: Proposed FDA ban on menthol cigarettes, USPSTF recommendations on low-dose aspirin regimens, youth suicides, Paxlovid and more.

Publications & Newsletters
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How to be preprepared in the event of a payor audit with Kathleen Blake, MD, MPH

AMA's Moving Medicine series features physician voices and achievements. Learn more in this discussion with Kathleen Blake, MD, MPH, about payor audits.

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Private Practices
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COVID-19 brings safety boost with rise of remote patient monitoring

More research shows the potential of remote patient monitoring and outlines five barriers health systems must overcome. Learn more with the AMA.

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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of April 4, 2022

In the news: U.S. a leader in preventable deaths of reproductive age women, obesity rose sharply among adults during the pandemic, COVID hospitalizations drop and more.

Publications & Newsletters
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New survey data shows doctors’ steadfast commitment to telehealth

Mask mandates and distancing stickers are going away, but AMA survey details why another pandemic phenomenon—telehealth—should be here for the long haul.

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