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Payor audit resources can be found on the AMA private practice sustainability website:   https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/private-practices/ama-private-practice-sustainability-getting-started     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together...

AMA CXO Todd Unger is joined by Dan Morhaim, MD, an emergency medicine physician in Maryland and author of the book "Preparing for A Better End", to discuss advance directives (also known as living wills) in preparation for National Healthcare Decision Day #NHDD on April 16. Visit www.thebetterend.com, for more information on Dr. Morhaim's book "Preparing for A Better End: Expert Lessons on Death...

Two of America’s most influential physician voices, AMA President Gerald E. Harmon, MD and Janis M. Orlowski, MD, the AAMC’s chief health care officer — detail what’s driving the physician shortage, how the pandemic’s exacerbating it, and how it can be overcome.     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most...

Be sure to check out the AMA's new Advocacy Insights webinar focused on the overdose epidemic when it posts on April 12: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/overdose-epidemic/ama-advocacy-insights-webinar-series-drug-overdose-epidemic   To learn more about the AMA’s efforts to end the overdose epidemic and get involved, visit: end-overdose-epidemic.org     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is y...

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with Waguih IsHak, MD, a professor and clinical chief of psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, about the importance of addressing mental health issues in physicians.      ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https:...

In recognition of both Doctors' Day and Women’s History Month, AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with AMA Immediate Past President Susan R. Bailey, MD, about the importance of supporting and recognizing our nation’s physicians today … and every day.        ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We wil...

In recognition of upcoming Doctor's Day, AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with Shaza Aouthmany, MD, the assistant dean of graduate and continuing medical education at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, about how her institution supports residents by actively promoting wellness through social outings, nutrition tips and access to mental health services 24/7.      ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺...

Physical activity can help reverse prediabetes and lower BP. Harvard obesity medicine physician scientist Dr. Fatima Stanford shares what patients should keep in mind, including how to up your physical activity game by finding your "soul-mate workout."     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patient...

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with Catherine Lucey, MD, vice dean for education at the University of California San Francisco Medical School, about how the pandemic is changing the type of physicians we need, and how it may permanently transform medical training for years to come.       ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on w...

Laurel Road is a preferred provider of AMA Member Benefits PLUS program, through which AMA members have access to special discounts and offers. Find out more at: https://www.ama-assn.org/ama-member-benefits-plus       ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challeng...

Learn more about Illinois Medical Professionals Action Collaborative Team (IMPACT), here: https://www.impact4hc.com/     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew  🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingFor...

The 2022 application deadline is 11:59pm Pacific time on March 31. To submit an Intent to Apply for your group, visit: https://americanmedicalassociation.submittable.com/submit     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn...

Stay up to date on all the latest advocacy news by subscribing to AMA Advocacy Update: https://www.ama-assn.org/advocacy-news     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew  🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/Fi...

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with Jack Billi, MD, a retired professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and Versell Smith Jr., executive director of the Corner Health Center in Ypsilanti, Mich., about Corner Health’s innovative approach to care for underserved youth from 12 to 25 years old.      ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issu...

Looking for more Match advice? Applicants can also participant in a special AMA webinar: "I Didn’t Match, Now What?" on March 23, 6 p.m. Central time. Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_goYou7PAQQi7HOc-Br6zZw Also watch the “AMA’s Road to Residency” video series to learn more about what to do if you don’t match here: https://www.ama-assn.org/series/road-residency     ⭐⭐...

AMA CXO Todd Unger chats with good friend of the show, Paul Offit, MD, the director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, about his book: "You Bet Your Life." For more information and purchase options for "You Bet Your Life," visit: https://www.paul-offit.com/recent-books     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA i...

The No Surprises Act (NSA) is here. In this episode, Chair of AMA board of Trustees, Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, is joined by experts from Manatt Health to discuss the implementation of the NSA, including many of the issues addressed in the AMA’s surprise billing toolkit. Speakers also tackle enforcement challenges and the interaction between state and federal surprise billing requirements. Find AMA’s su...

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with AMA Senior Vice President of Advocacy in Washington, D.C., about the AMA’s latest advocacy efforts. Topics include surprise billing, prior authorization, Medicare physician payment reform and telehealth. Stay up to date on all the latest advocacy news by subscribing to AMA Advocacy Update: https://www.ama-assn.org/advocacy-news     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerf...

In recognition of Black History Month, AMA's CXO Todd Unger, is joined by Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc, vice dean of diversity and inclusion and chief of the Division of Cardiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago to discuss the importance of recognizing Black pioneers in medicine. The Kathy Blake, MD, MPH, and Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, article "Change the Name of the Bla...

AMA CXO Todd Unger discusses the passage of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act with Corey Feist, co-founder and president of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation, and what it means for physicians. To learn more about All In: WellBeing First for Healthcare and access additional resources, visit: https://www.allinforhealthcare.org/     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful al...

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with Leanne Chrisman-Khawam, MD, MEd, an assistant professor of social medicine and director of the Transformative Care Continuum program at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Cleveland, who shares advice for medical students on their rank order lists in preparation for this year’s Main Residency Match.     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful al...

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with AMA Chief Health Equity Officer Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, about the AMA’s critical work to advance health equity in 2022. Watch AMA's Prioritizing Equity video series, and access additional tools and resources here: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/health-equity/prioritizing-equity-video-series     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on address...

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with Karen Smith, MD, a family medicine physician in private practice in Raeford, N.C., to discuss the important issue of payor contracting.      ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew  🥼 Go...

AMA CXO Todd Unger chats with Brittany Ikwuagwu, the AMA's current government relations advocacy fellow, or GRAF, about the power of medical student advocacy and the AMA’s upcoming Medical Student Advocacy Conference (MAC). This year's conference will be held virtually, March 3-4, 2022, and will include one day of programming and one day of scheduled virtual Capitol Hill meetings to advocate on ke...