Healthcare Innovation November 15, 2023
Value-based contracting and Medicare Advantage became major focuses of attention at the Interim Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates
Value-based contracting was once again a subject of discussion at the current Interim Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates being held this week in National Harbor, Maryland, the gathering that meets to help set policies for the Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based American Medical Association (AMA). A press release posted to the association’s website on Nov. 13 and running under the headline “Removing physicians from cost-sharing collections,” explained what had happened: “As health insurers require patients to pay a larger share of health care bills, many physicians do not feel comfortable or adequately equipped to be the collection point for...