Perspectives with the AMA
This series in partnership with the American Medical Association brings healthcare professionals timely, relevant, and emerging information that impacts daily practice and the changing world of medicine. Featuring insights from health care leaders, this Perspectives with the AMA series is a must for any healthcare professional who wants to stay up to date on the latest issues and trending topics in the space, including value-based care, telehealth, the opioid epidemic, Medicare payment, cyber security, and so much more.
- Update frequency
- every 49 days
- Episodes
- 45
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The AMA Opioid Task Force Calls for Individualized Care for Patients with Pain
Guest: Ameet Nagpal, MD
Guest: Steven P. Stanos, Jr., DO
Individualized healthcare is extremely important for patients with pain, but physicians and patie…
Behavioral Health Integration: Exploring Its Effect on Clinical Practice
Guest: Donald Meyer, MD
Guest: Travis Mickelson, MD
With physical and behavioral health practices often operating in silos, many healthcare providers are lef…
The Realities of Medicare Advantage: Perspectives on Physician & Patient Outcomes
Guest: Griffin Myers, MD, MBA, FACEP
Guest: Barbara Spivak, MD
Despite increasing levels of burden, physicians remain supportive of efforts that improve pa…
Value-Based Care: Taking the Pulse of Key Stakeholders in Healthcare
Guest: Kathleen Blake, MD, MPH
Guest: Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH
Guest: Sheila Savageau
Guest: Michael Seres
How do you define value-based care? That’s the…
Easing the Burden of Medicare Documentation Guidelines
Guest: Barbara Levy, MD
Guest: Peter A. Hollmann, MD
In response to physicians’ feedback, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed some big ch…
What Do the Updated Medicare Payment Policies Mean for You?
Guest: Barbara A. McAneny, MD
There were a lot of changes made to the 2019 Medicare payment policies. Here to review what these updates mean—and what’s being don…
The Future of APMs: What We Learned from the RAND Study
Guest: Mark Friedberg, MD
With the use of alternative payment models (APMs) on the rise, the American Medical Association and the RAND Corporation joined force…
Get the Breakdown on How Costs Are Measured Under MIPS
Guest: Koryn Rubin
Some big changes are taking effect in one of the performance categories under MIPS. The cost category is now affecting your MIPS score differe…
Work in a Hospital? Here’s What You Need to Know About MIPS
Guest: Carol Vargo, MHS
Amid all the changes to quality reporting under MIPS, many hospital-based physicians are unsure about what effects, if any, there will be…
What Is a Virtual Group Under the Quality Payment Program & Should You Join One?
Even though more and more physicians are becoming aware of the option to participate in the Quality Payment Program as a virtual group, many still may not have all t…
How Physician-Focused APMs Aim to Overcome Challenges
Alternative Payment Models, or APMs, were introduced as a way to reduce costs and improve patient care, but physicians have been slow to adopt this model. To address…
The Quality Payment Program in 2019: What to Know About Upgrading Your EHR
Guest: Laura Hoffman
Guest: Matt Reid
If you’re planning on participating in the Quality Payment Program in 2019, you may be wondering what you can—and shoul…
What Are Your Quality Reporting Options?
Guest: Koryn Rubin
With more and more physicians wondering what the new individual and group reporting measures mean for them and their practice, Dr. Matt Birnho…
How Small Practices Can Comply with MIPS Quality Reporting Requirements
Guest: Richard Deem
With the advent of the Medicare Quality Payment Program, there are notable practice changes for clinicians. What do these changes mean for yo…
The Technical Assistance You’ll Need for the Quality Payment Programs Changes
New rules issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are providing physicians with a smoother transition to the Quality Payment Program, or QPP. One …
Are We Prepared for MACRA and the Quality Payment Program? The Survey Says . . .
A recent survey of one thousand practicing physicians in the US, conducted by KPMG and the American Medical Association, is shedding new light on knowledge gaps in p…
“Pick Your Pace” Options Under the CMS Quality Payment Program
This discussion is dedicated to helping clinicians understand the “Pick Your Pace” option for Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) participation.How should ph…
Questions on MACRA Everyone Wants to Know
MACRA’ is one of the hottest buzzwords in clinical medicine and health policy today. But in a fast-changing legislative landscape, questions arise on the current and…
What Are Physician-Focused Payment Models?
The new Quality Payment Program, QPP, created by Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, or MACRA, has generated questions from the physician community regardi…
What We Need to Know about Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs)
Qualified Clinical Data Registries, or QCDRs, are keys to Medicare’s new payment system in that they collect clinical data for the purpose of patient and disease tra…