AMA Wins Pain-Management Rule Change
November 2nd 2016At the urging of the American Medical Association, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it is eliminating a rule that some physicians feel has contributed to the US opioid addiction epidemic. Starting in 2017, patients at outpatient facilities will no longer be asked whether they got sufficient pain management. CMS announced other changes as well.
AMA Software: Making Docs Love Medicine Again
June 8th 2015The American Medical Association has invested between $10 and $15 million in a practice-management software program that it hopes will put the love back in practicing medicine. But so far the program has not developed guidelines to help physicians cope with ICD-10, the mandatory switch to knew billing codes that the AMA's incoming president concedes will be "a traumatic experience."