The ACR Opposes Part B Payment Demo & Other Highlights from the AMA HOD Meeting

We need rheumatologists to join the AMA. Having participated in your delegation for over a decade, I have seen major improvements in focus, prioritization of issues, transparency, collaboration and diversity in the AMA, and we need your help now to keep rheumatology’s seat at the table. You can help by renewing your membership in or joining the AMA. Call the AMA at 800-262-3211, and specify that you want to join or renew. We also need ACR members to specify the ACR as your specialty organization by “voting” for the ACR, which confirms for the AMA that you want to be counted toward rheumatology’s seat at the table.

Gary Bryant, MD, FACR, is chair of the ACR’s delegation to the AMA House of Delegates.

There is a saying that if the American Medical Association (AMA) did not exist, we would have to invent it. That is just what Dr. Nathan S. Davis did back in 1845 when he called for a national medical convention and laid the foundation for the establishment of the AMA in 1847. This new group would…

Join the AMA. Don’t join because you agree with everything the AMA does. Join so we, as rheumatologists, will continue to have a voice and make a difference.

As 2017 unfolds—a year when MACRA begins, lawmakers take steps to dismantle the health reform efforts of the past eight years, and political uncertainty is the rule—it is imperative that the ACR leverage its advocacy agenda by maintaining its seat at the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) House of Delegates (HOD), says Gary Bryant, MD, FACP…

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