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Health insurance industry slow to adopt prior authorization reforms

Despite potentially harmful consequences of delayed care, health plans not making progress reforming prior authorization process they impose on patient care.

Press Releases
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March 7, 2019: National Advocacy Update

Feedback on changing HIPAA, care coordination and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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March 7, 2019: State Advocacy Update

State medical societies work to remove prior authorization for MAT, Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner's naloxone bulletin and more in AMA's state advocacy efforts.

Advocacy Update
Student Impact Challenge winner Kevin Tyan
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Medical students as change agents? How these six are doing it

The winners of a recent competition highlight how medical students can be catalysts for change at the health systems level.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Feb. 22, 2019: Advocacy spotlight on Highlights from the 2019 National Advocacy Conference

Thank you to those who joined us at this year's National Advocacy Conference (NAC). Read the highlights.

Advocacy Update
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Feb. 22, 2019: National Advocacy Update

HHS proposed rule on drug rebates, the House and gun violence and more in the latest from AMA national advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Feb. 22, 2019: State Advocacy Update

New York governor proposes removing prior authorization for MAT and California AG calls to help substance use disorders in the latest AMA state and local efforts to advocate for health care.

Advocacy Update
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AMA and CMA praise Atty. Gen. Becerra for supporting MAT

American Medical Association, California Medical Association praise California attorney general call for helping patients struggling with substance use disorder.

Press Releases
Brett P. Giroir, MD, at the 2019 AMA National Advocacy Conference
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HHS official: Better pain treatment a key to ending opioid crisis

HHS official says two keys to ending the opioid epidemic are finding better ways to treat pain and moving from a crisis framework to a sustainable system.

Overdose Epidemic