Fierce Healthcare June 9, 2020
Susan Bailey, M.D., the new president of the American Medical Association (AMA), called for physicians to advocate at the highest levels of government and insurance companies for support needed “to sustain private practice during a pandemic that threatens its very survival.”
Bailey, an allergist from Fort Worth, Texas, was sworn in as president of the nation’s largest physician organization over the weekend. She called herself a “passionate defender of the independent physician.”
“Like the AMA, I’m determined to remove all those obstacles that have come between us and our patients—insurer and government mandates, decreasing payments and increasing demands, burnout and physician suicide,” Bailey said in a virtual inaugural address. “The coronavirus pandemic has made all of these problems more...
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