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FTC’s Ban of Non-Compete Agreements Undermines Team-Based Healthcare
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AMGA today strenuously objected to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decision to ban the use of non-compete agreements. The FTC’s decision to unilaterally eliminate existing non-compete agreements and ban their future use will have far-reaching negative implications for patients, clinicians, and AMGA members. -
AMGA’s Rise to Immunize® Campaign Announces Extension and Expansion
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Today, AMGA Foundation’s Rise to Immunize® (RIZE) campaign announced that the initiative, which previously ran through 2025, will be extended through 2027 to provide AMGA medical groups and health systems additional time to tackle immunization barriers and inequities. Further, RIZE is expanding to support AMGA members on three additional adult vaccines: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), COVID-19, and hepatitis B. -
AMGA Honors Merck with Distinguished Corporate Partner Award
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In recognition of their ongoing support and partnership, AMGA has named Merck (Rahway, NJ, USA), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, as the recipient of its 2024 Distinguished Corporate Partner Award. -
Corewell Health Honored as AMGA’s 2024 Acclaim Award Recipient
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Michigan-based Corewell Health has been named AMGA’s 2024 Acclaim Award recipient. The Acclaim Award honors healthcare delivery organizations bringing their organization closer to the ideal medical group and health system as they move toward value-based care. For their accomplishments, Baylor Scott & White Medical Group and St. Elizabeth Physicians were named Acclaim Award honorees. -
AMGA Endorses Chronic Care Management Reform
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AMGA and 26 healthcare stakeholder groups endorsed a policy to improve care coordination for the more than 22.5 million Medicare beneficiaries with chronic disease by waiving beneficiary cost-sharing requirements for Chronic Care Management (CCM) services. This endorsement came in the wake of an April 11 Senate Finance Committee hearing on chronic care in the Medicare program. -
AMGA Objects to Medicare Advantage Rate Cuts
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AMGA today objected to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) cut in the finalized 2025 benchmark rate for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. AMGA is concerned the cut in the benchmark payments by 0.16% does not account for the increased cost of providing care and the increase in utilization. -
Change Health Outages Requires Swift Federal Response
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AMGA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to open the Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payment (AAP) program to physicians and other Part B providers harmed by the recent Change Healthcare cybersecurity attack. -
AMGA Objects to Medicare Advantage Rate Cuts
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AMGA today recommended the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reconsider the cut in the proposed benchmark rate for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and the continued phase-in of the new Hierarchical Condition Categories (CMS-HCC) model. -
New AMGA Survey Shows Decrease in Benefits Eligibility Threshold for Many Groups
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The newly released AMGA 2023 Medical Group Benefits Survey, published with input collected from the Group Physician Advisory division of The Partners Group, suggests significant changes in benefits eligibility and other areas in comparison to the results of the AMGA 2018 Medical Group Benefits Survey, the last year survey data were published. In the survey, participating medical groups continue to identify workforce challenges as the root cause for many of the benefits issues they are facing. -
AMGA Foundation Welcomes Two New Board Members
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AMGA Foundation welcomes Nancy Beran, MD, MHCDS, FACP, CPE, and Scott Berkowitz, MD, MBA, to its Board of Directors. Both Drs. Beran and Berkowitz began their new terms in January 2024.
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