This episode of the AUA's Inside Tract podcast is about Health Policy and Advocacy and comes from the 2018 AUA Residents Forum. The overall theme of this discussion is Doing Good and Doing Well: Finding your Way as a Urologist.

Speakers include: Kevin Koo, MD, Christopher M. Gonzalez, MD, MBA, and James M. Dupree, MD, MPH.

Today's advocacy episode of the Inside Tract podcast is about telemedicine. It features a discussion with AUA's Coding Education Trainer Edna Maldonado.

This discussion includes defining telemedicine and ways that physicians are currently billing for this type of visit.

Today's AUA Inside Tract podcast episode features a panel discussion from the 2018 AUA Residents Forum about wellness, burnout and sustaining your career in urology. The panelists for this discussion, are Amanda North, MD, Hadley Wood, MD, and Deborah Lightner, MD.

Welcome to the latest advocacy episode of the AUA’s podcast, the Inside Tract. 

In this week’s top advocacy news, the National Academy of Medicine recently released a new report on clinician burnout that addresses the prevalence of burnout, its impact on healthcare in the United States, and addresses six goals for stakeholders to “prevent and mitigate clinician burnout and foster professional well-being.”

The Urology Care Foundation is the official foundation of the American Urological Association (AUA). On this episode of the AUA's Inside Tract podcast, Sanford J. Siegel, M.D., discusses the importance of the Foundation and why he supports it. 

Dr. Siegel is the Chairman of United Urology Group, he is also an At-Large member of the Foundation's Board of Directors. 

Former U.S. Representative Phil Gingrey, MD, is our guest on this advocacy edition of the AUA's Inside Tract podcast. 

He served in the United States Congress from 2003 to 2015 for a total of six terms while representing Georgia's 11th congressional district. Before Congress, Dr. Gingrey spent 22 years practicing obstetrics and gynecology in metropolitan Atlanta. He is currently a senior adviser at the District Policy Group in Washington, D.C.

This episode of the Inside Tract podcast features Kyle Richards, MD, FACS, discussing key facts about coding and reimbursement in urology. Dr. Richards is AUA Advisor to the RUC and AUA Young Urologists Committee Chair-Elect. He chats about the importance of understanding coding and reimbursement.

In this week’s advocacy episode of the American Urological Association (AUA) Inside Tract podcast we are joined by AUA Coding Education Trainer Edna Maldonado. Ms. Maldonado discusses what urology practices need to know about coding changes for 2020.

This episode of the AUA Inside Tract includes urologists who are ten years or less out of residency discuss thriving in different practice settings, from academic to large private practice to small group practice. Speakers on this podcast include: Adam Kadlec, MD (moderator), Cory Hugen, MD, Jodi Michaels, MD and Nathan Grunewald, MD.

This is the latest advocacy edition of the AUA's Inside Tract podcast. In our top payment advocacy news, the AUA recently submitted its comment letter to CMS on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule for 2020. The AUA supports the proposed increase in the conversion factor for 2020, as well as the overall proposed increase of 1 percent in allowable charges for urology. Learn about this and much more on today's Advocacy Update.