AMA President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, talks Medicare payment, physician burnout & reproductive care
AMA President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, reflects on his presidency and shares what it was like to lead the AMA through the ups and downs of the past year, tackling issues like Medicare payment reform, fixing prior authorization, maintaining access to reproductive care and evidence-based medicine. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.
00:00 AMA Update for June 12, 2023
00:11 AMA President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, reflects on his presidency
00:41 We need to fix what's broken and it's not the physician
01:05 Drivers of physician burnout
01:58 The AMA Recovery Plan for America's Physicians
02:05 Underlying obstacles getting in the way of patient care
02:22 Progress on the AMA Recovery Plan
02:56 Why are physicians burned out?
03:24 Medicare payment reform
03:52 What is prior authorization?
04:47 Telehealth extensions
05:06 Over-the-counter naloxone and contraceptives
06:35 Advancing health equity
07:11 Rise to Health
08:12 How policy grounds medicine
08:25 AMA efforts to protect the doctor-patient relationship
08:39 The Dobbs decision
09:07 Access to reproductive health care
12:26 Mifepristone case
13:29 Why are physicians leaving the profession?
16:21 #fightingfordocs
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