Fierce Healthcare November 12, 2018
The AMA held its interim meeting this week.
The “dysfunctional” U.S. health system may be working to improve hospital and payer bottom lines, but it’s not working as intended for patients or the doctors that care for them, the head of the country’s largest physician organization said.
Barbara McAneny, M.D., president of the American Medical Association, said at the group’s interim meeting that the healthcare system “often gets in the way of actual healthcare.” This is evident in payer issues, such as restrictive prior authorization, and the industry’s ongoing appetite for consolidation, she said.
“I feel a sense of urgency as we are witness to greater concentration of wealth and power in the hands of ever-larger corporations, with more and...