The American Medical Association has found a friend. After a string of high-profile guests appeared before the AMA's National Advocacy Conference this week in Washington, Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) was the first to tell anyone.
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The trend continues where high-profile guests show up at American Medical Association meetings, but don't tell anyone about it.
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There was excitement in some circles when it was announced that the American Geriatrics Society was given a permanent seat on the Medicare payment advisory panel known as the RUC. But it also opened up the potential for unpleasant interaction between older folks learning how to use social media to disseminate news and younger generations using it to transmit the transient thoughts that randomly pop in their heads.
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As someone who has Googled "AMGA" in search of the American Medical Group Association only to find the American Meat Goat Association's website instead, I know that acronyms used in healthcare are not unique to the world of medicine.
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The American Medical Association's Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee, also known as RUC, appears to be listening to its critics. But whether it's doing enough to hold on to its Medicare payment advisory role is another question.
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Some 110 physician groups signed a recent letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) urging Congress to use leftover military contingency funds for a "cleaning of the books" that would make possible the repeal of the sustainable growth-rate Medicare-payment formula.
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I suppose only in Washington could a panel meet to discuss ways to increase payment for primary-care services, but be forbidden to attach a dollar amount to those figures.
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Kearney, Neb., a town of about 31,000 people, is about a five-hour drive east from Denver and a two-hour drive west from Lincoln, and now in the middle of a national healthcare controversy.
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"Ban on antibiotics in animal feed imminent" reads the headline of a news brief I wrote back in April 1985.
I suppose from a geological perspective, a period of 25 years reflects some degree of imminence, but in political terms, it's several lifetimes.
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The Internet was full of commentary after the recent death of Siobhan Reynolds, but none of the comments I saw came from Dr. William Hurwitz, the physician whose legal troubles inspired Reynolds to become an advocate for pain patients and the doctors who treated them.
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The Internet was full of commentary after the recent death of Siobhan Reynolds, but none of the comments I saw came from Dr. William Hurwitz, the physician whose legal troubles inspired Reynolds to become an advocate for pain patients and the doctors who treated them.
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