Practice Management News

AMA delegates at the annual meeting underway in Chicago adopted a policy to ensure there is sufficient funding for medical residency positions, according to a press release.

On the second day of its annual meeting, AMA voted to adopt new policies that provide more choices for veterans’ care, ensures timely access to prescriptions, opposes caps on Medicaid funding, extends CMS’ locum tenens 60-day limit and promotes greater integrated health care leadership, according to two separate press releases.

David O. Barbe, MD, a family medicine practitioner, was sworn in as the American Medical Association’s 172nd president last night.

The AMA voted to implement new policies that will improve and protect the health of immigrants and refugees seeking safe haven in the United States, according to a recent press release. Physicians from across the globe approved of these new policies as they gathered this week at AMA’s Annual Meeting.  

As the debate over health care reform continues, the AMA and seven other consumer, patient and provider advocate groups recently announced that they are working together on a new initiative to ensure patients are put first.  

Barbara L. McAneny, MD, an oncologist in New Mexico, has been chosen president-elect of the AMA.

The Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling today that will accelerate the pace at which biosimilars can be made available to the public.

The AMA has been focused on three strategic areas — enhancing professional satisfaction and practice sustainability, developing the medical school of the future, and bettering health outcomes for patients with prediabetes and hypertension — according to the organization’s CEO, James L. Madara, MD. However, these three areas have expanded and are now interconnected, he said.

Andrew W. Gurman, MD, president of AMA, urged the nation’s physician and medical leaders to champion the causes of their patients and themselves at the organization’s annual meeting that is currently underway in Chicago.

To identify and eliminate or change outdated, unnecessary or ineffective regulations that impose superfluous costs or create inconsistencies, CMS issued a Request for Information asking the public for recommendations and input on how to establish a more flexible, efficient approach to the regulatory structure of the individual and small group markets, according to a press release.