AMA Asks Physicians for Examples of Practice Intrusions

The American Medical Association (AMA) is documenting examples of intrusion by third parties in medical care. The Private Sector Advocacy unit seeks real-life examples of inappropriate interventions by health insurers, disease management companies and radiology or pharmacy benefit managers. These interventions, purportedly made in the name of improved patient care, are inexpensive for third parties to request, but require significant time, effort, and often uncompensated expense by you and your administrative personnel to implement and/or follow up. If you have experienced an intrusive practice by a third party, please send a description of the situation, the name of the third party, and your city and state via email at psa-arc@ama-assn.org. The AMA will use this information to clearly define the scope of this problem and take appropriate action when patterns of intrusive practices are discovered.

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