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CMS has questions on digital health tools. AMA has answers.

The AMA offers guidance to CMS on information blocking, patients’ access to records, fixing prior authorization and making digital health tools useful.

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Digital
Fighting for Physicians
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Harnessing informatics’ power to cut physician burdens

Find out how HL7’s FHIR standard is developed with physician input and is being used to speed up prior authorization.

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Prior Authorization
Fighting for Physicians
Red tap covers a crack in a wall
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Inside payers' latest plans to streamline prior authorization

Cautious optimism is the watchword for physicians tired of seeing their patients’ care delayed. The AMA is fighting to fix prior authorization.

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Prior Authorization
Fighting for Physicians
Ladder emerges from a maze
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Action must follow pledges on prior authorization reform

The latest pledge by heath plans to reform the onerous prior authorization process must be followed by concrete action that fulfills those promises. 

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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AMA responds as health insurers try again at prior authorization reform

Credits agency officials & federal lawmakers for leadership and holding industry accountable.

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The AMA steps up its efforts to fix prior authorization

The House of Delegates moves to rein in the broken prior authorization process that endangers patient care and frustrates physicians.

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Prior Authorization
Fighting for Physicians
AMA Update for May 30, 2025: How docs help develop medical technology that's speeding up electronic prior authorization
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How docs help develop medical technology that's speeding up electronic prior authorization

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about technology for electronic prior authorization.

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Prior Authorization
AMA Update
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How docs help develop medical technology that's speeding up electronic prior authorization [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about technology for electronic prior authorization.

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Prior Authorization
AMA Update Podcast
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May 30, 2025: National Advocacy Update

Bipartisan AMA-supported prior authorization legislation reintroduced in Congress and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update