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Medicare’s pay system is unsustainable. A rigid approach that limits doctor participation in alternative payment models (APMs) is part of the problem.
Precision education is a developing concept and one of four new focus areas for the AMA ChangeMedEd® initiative. Find out more.
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MedPAC wants physician pay increased to ensure patient access to care and more in the latest Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update.
New exception for filing No Surprises Act claim due to Change Healthcare cyberattack and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.
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May 30, 2024
Heart health is a major concern in the U.S. Or at least it should be.
Cardiovascular disease has been the leading cause of death here for 100 years now, yet more than half of U.S. adults, 51%, don’t even know it. Perhaps not surprisingly, nearly identical numbers of U.S. adults have either cardiovascular disease or hypertension. And as of 2021, five of the top ten drugs prescribed to outpatients were either antihypertensives or antihyperlipidemics. Statistics like these go on and on, so clearly a lot more needs to be done to educate people in the U.S. of how their lifestyle choices are literally killing them.
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Learn more about the AMA MAP™ Hypertension program, which helps care teams to improve and sustain BP control with an evidence-based approach that includes peer to peer education, practice tools and resources.
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