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AMA targets improvements to emergency care

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, November 30, 2006

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The American Medical Association (AMA) has issued a number of recommendations aimed at improving emergency and trauma care. The goals set forward by the association are meant to "increase patients' access to emergency care physicians and improve the quality of care provided," according to an official statement issued recently on the AMA's official Web site.

Among the goals and recommendations are:

• Advocating for the creation and funding of additional residency training positions in specialties that provide emergency and trauma care to increase the physician workforce;
• Working to ensure payment to physicians from insurers for providing emergency care regardless of in-network or out-of-network patient status;
• Securing bonus payments for physicians providing emergency services in physician shortage areas, and advocating for federal and state liability protection for emergency physicians;
• Improving the efficiency of emergency care by identifying best practices for the staffing, delivery and financing of emergency services.

For a copy of the AMA's complete statement, visit http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/17092.html.

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