Moving Medicine

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.

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🩺 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/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

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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 Blalock-Taussig Shunt to Blalock-Thomas-Taussig Shunt" is available on JAMA Surgery (doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2021.5611).  

 

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🩺 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/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

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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/  

 

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🩺 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/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

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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.  

 

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🩺 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/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

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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 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/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

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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 to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

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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 key issues like prior authorization, telehealth and payment reform.  

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🩺 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/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

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AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with Jillian Horton, MD, associate chair of the internal medicine department at the University of Manitoba Max Rady College of Medicine, in Winnipeg, Canada, about how physicians can help leaders address the complicated issue of physician burnout by sharing their stories. Dr. Horton is also the author of the national bestseller: We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing.  

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🩺 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/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

📧 Sign up for #MorningRounds and free daily newsletters from the AMA:

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In this continued conversation, family physician Dr. Mark Greenawald talks about help-seeking in the context of the Great Resignation and what physicians are going through.  

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🩺 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/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

📧 Sign up for #MorningRounds and free daily newsletters from the AMA:

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AMA member David J. Welsh, MD, has stepped up to the plate in many leadership and advocacy roles. Now he is running for state representative in Indiana. In this interview by AMA senior news writer Sara Berg, MS, Dr. Welsh shares what's led him here as well as his hopes and plans for Indiana.  

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🩺 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/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA

advocacy priorities, including: 

▹ Reforming Medicare payment 

▹ Fighting scope creep 

▹ Fixing prior authorization 

▹ Reducing physician burnout 

▹ Making technology work for physicians 

📺 Subscribe to @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:

https://ama-assn.co/youTube 

📧 Sign up for #MorningRounds and free daily newsletters from the AMA:

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