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AMA MEETING
AMA Interim Meeting Highlights
The 2018 American Medical Association (AMA) Interim Meeting was held November 8-13, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland.
Left to right: Kelly S. Eschbach, MD; Janice E. Tildon-Burton, MD; Richard W. Henderson, MD attend the AMA Interim Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland.
price and cost transparency so patients can afford the prescription drugs they need
— Dr. McAneny called on her colleagues
to take on harassment in medicine and reasserted the AMA’s urgent pleas for action to reduce gun violence.
“The AMA steps in where others fear to tread, and it will take time but we will get there,” said Dr. McAneny. “Gun violence is another area where many ‘fear to tread.’ Just in the last two weeks, we have mourned still more senseless deaths from the mass shootings in Pittsburgh and in Thousand Oaks. Meanwhile, the CDC and suicides are at their highest levels in
more than a decade. Colleagues, these deaths — from mass shootings, from suicide, from — are preventable. Thoughts and prayers just won’t cut it anymore. Policymakers at the state and federal level must act on common- sense, data-driven measures to prevent yet more carnage. We must also continue to speak out.”
Learn more about actions at the 2018 AMA Interim Meeting on the AMA’s website, www.ama-assn.org.
The Medical Society of Delaware was represented by MSD’s AMA Delegate Kelly Eschbach, MD; Alternate Delegate Janice Tildon-Burton, MD; Organized Medical Staff Section Representative Nancy Fan, MD, MSD; President Richard W. Henderson, MD; and MSD Executive Director Mark Thompson, MHSA.
In her address to physician leaders gathered from across the nation at the opening session of the AMA Interim Meeting, President Barbara L. McAneny, MD, outlined the AMA’s ongoing effort to attack dysfunction in health care.
In addition to highlighting physician efforts on behalf of patients from the past year —
The AMA’s House of Delegates
The House of Delegates is the policy-making body at
the center of American medicine, bringing together an inclusive group of physicians, medical students, and residents representing every state and medical field. Delegates work in a democratic process to create a national physician consensus on emerging issues in public health, science, ethics, business, and government to continually provide safer, higher-quality, and more efficient care for patients and communities.
Policy decisions approved by the House of Delegates included:
Collaborating with Medicare and Medicaid
on Prior Authorization Relief. The new AMA policy identifies opportunities where physicians
and government officials can work together to create a prior authorization process that reduces administrative burdens, and ensures that Medicare and Medicaid patients have access to timely and necessary care and medications.
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