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VA standards for health professionals threaten veterans’ care

Action by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to implement practice standards has unintended consequences that jeopardize health care for veterans.

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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Why VA’s move to nationalize standards of practice is misguided

The VA’s Supremacy Project threatens to undermine confidence in care provided to veterans by superseding state scope-of-practice and licensure laws.

Scope of Practice
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AMA: VA misfires on standards for oversight of health care professionals

These back-of-the-envelope standards will have the unintended consequence of reducing the quality of health care for veterans.

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Five doctors and health care workers in full scrubs and PPE working on a patient in a hospital bed in a COVID-19 ward.
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How the crucible of COVID-19 can help fix the health care system

A National Academy of Medicine report details the pandemic’s effect on clinicians and the long-overdue systemic improvements needed to support them.

Public Health
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July 16, 2021: Advocacy Update spotlight on scope of practice—state legislative roundup

Scope of practice: State legislative roundup in this week's Advocacy Update spotlight.

Advocacy Update
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12 MIN READ

Time to pursue patient-centered payment models designed by doctors

The U.S. health care system should include physician-designed alternative payment models (APMs) that can improve care and remove barriers to innovation.

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
ideo screenshot of Monday June 14 Special Meeting of the HOD with HOD Speaker Bruce Scott and Vice Speaker Lisa Bohman Egbert.
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Highlights from the June 2021 AMA Special Meeting

Catch up with the news and other key moments from the AMA House of Delegates' virtual meeting, which ran June 11¬16.
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PA rebrand as “physician associates” will deepen patient confusion

Nearly 25% of patients confused about whether PAs are doctors. Delegates say AAPA’s latest marketing move further muddies the waters.

Scope of Practice
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AMA announced policies adopted on final day of Special Meeting

Welfare work requirements, immigration, vaccine privacy & more covered.

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