Healthcare Innovation June 5, 2019
Mark Hagland

On Wednesday, the AMGA, which represents many of the largest multispecialty medical groups, endorsed aspects of Senate legislation designed to require health plans to share data with providers and patients

In a letter sent to the chairman and the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate HELP Committee) on Wednesday, June 5, the Alexandria, Va.-based American Medical Group Association (AMGA), endorsed a proposal to incorporate into evolving legislation requirements for health plans to share data with providers and patients.

The letter, signed by AMGA president and CEO Jerry Penso, M.D., was addressed to Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) and Patty Murray (D.-Washington), the chairman and the ranking member of the HELP Committee, respectively.

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