In part two, AMA President Jack Resneck Jr. MD, and guest Rob Jordan, director of AMA political and legislative grassroots, talk about the Physicians Grassroots Network and best practices for grassroots change. They're also joined by Jason Marino, director of AMA Congressional Affairs and Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, chair, AMA Board of Trustees.  

 

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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:

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🥼 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 part one of this conversation, you'll hear from AMA President Jack Resneck Jr. MD, and Jason Marino, director of AMA Congressional Affairs – about AMA’s advocacy on Capitol Hill and the issues discussed as part of the AMA National Advocacy Conference earlier this year. The conversation is lead by Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, chair, AMA Board of Trustees.  

 

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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:

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Hear from experts about pragmatic implementation strategies for the primary care setting, including one practice’s key lessons learned from putting them into action. Panelists include Virna Little, PsyD, LCSW-r, SAP, CCM, Daniel Miller, MD and Allison Dubois, MPH. For more about the BHI Collaborative Overcoming Obstacles Series, go to www.ama-assn.org/bhiresources  

 

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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's Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH discusses how coronavirus infections affect newborns, infants, and toddlers. A new CDC study finds COVID-positive children under 5 years old are at higher risk of severe illness—especially after testing positive for another respiratory virus like flu or RSV. Also new research on COVID and pregnancy finds that expectant mothers positive with COVID-19 who give birth have an increased risk of maternal death, severe maternal morbidities, and adverse newborn outcomes. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

Our physicians and expert guests will discuss practical strategies, actionable steps and evidence-based resources on how to identify those physicians and patients at-risk for suicide and connect them with the most appropriate care. Our guests include: Daniel Miller, MD, Chief of Graduate Medical Education and Behavioral Health Integration, Sun River Health; Christine Yu Moutier, MD, Chief medical officer, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention; Stephen O’Connor, PhD, Chief of the Suicide Prevention Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health; Scott Pasichow, MD, MPH, Assistant EMS medical director, Southern Illinois University; Lisa K. Kearney, Phd, ABPP, Executive director, Veterans Crisis Line (VCL)Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention (OMHSP)

For more about the BHI Collaborative Overcoming Obstacles Series, go to www.ama-assn.org/bhiresources  

 

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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 part two of this series, doctors Chris Jagmin, MD, vice-chair of the CPT Editorial Panel and chair of the CPT Assistant Editorial Board along with Mark Synovec, MD, chair of the CPT Editorial Panel during the COVID-19 pandemic, continue their conversation about the influence of CPT in the health care system.    

 

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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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What happens when a 50+ year-old terminology, with a long-standing, evidence-based, rigorous infrastructure, faces off against the stresses and challenges brought on by a pandemic and overnight shift in care delivery? In this episode, our guests Chris Jagmin, MD, vice-chair of the CPT Editorial Panel and chair of the CPT Assistant Editorial Board along with Mark Synovec, MD, chair of the CPT Editorial Panel during the COVID-19 pandemic, discuss the influence of CPT in the health care system.    

 

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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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Effectively addressing health equity requires addressing CPT, the Language of Medicine, itself. CPT Editorial Panel member Barbara Levy, MD will share why diversity, equity and inclusion matters in CPT and how it supports optimal health of patients and populations.      

 

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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:

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Obstacles to care emerge from prior authorization, Medicare cuts and politicized exam rooms. AMA President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, details how AMA has doctors’ backs.  

 

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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:

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Kim Templeton, MD, believes that more physicians will leave the field of medicine unless something is done to address burnout and the system. Dr. Templeton is an orthopedic surgeon and professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Kansas School of Medicine and Health System, and is also a past chair of the AMA Women Physicians Section and a past president of the American Medical Women’s Association.  

 

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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:

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