The team sits down with incoming AMGA Chair Beth Averbeck to discuss her experience with palliative and hospice care, from both a clinical and policy perspective. Ensuring patient dignity and wishes at end of life presents a number of policy challenges, and Dr. Averbeck and the team discuss possible solutions.

In Season #2 Episode 8, the AGMA team discussed how the government shutdown is affecting healthcare. The team discussed how the shutdown is disrupting telehealth and hospital-at-home programs, how AMGA members are responding to the shutdown, and what the key political sticking points preventing a resolution are. Additional details and all episodes are available on the AMGA website.

In Season #2, Episode #7: The AMGA team discusses our regulatory priorities and how outdated regulations and rules hinder care and create administrative burden. The team compared some of them to “microwaving fish” in the staff break room. The team explained how Medicare rules and regulations can be updated, so they support care modern care delivery systems. Additional details and all episodes are available on the AMGA website.

In Season #2, Episode #6: The AMGA team discusses the government shutdown and the ramification for AMGA members. The team explain that while Medicare will continue to pay claims, several key healthcare flexibilities, such as telehealth, expired and need to be reauthorized. Additional details and all episodes are available on the AMGA website.

In Season #2, Episode #5: The AMGA team discusses the importance of developing relations with congressional staff and providing real-world experience and expertise. The team explains how offering concrete policy recommendations will go a long way to achieving policy aims. Additional details and all episodes are available on the AMGA website.

With another government shutdown looming, the AMGA team explains how the appropriation process is supposed to work, in the context of a viral TikTok trend.

HRSA’s new 340B model will test a rebate model for 340B drugs, requiring providers to file for a rebate rather than receiving an upfront discount. The AMGA discusses the ramifications of this change, along with CMS’ plan to accelerate a repayment plan as part of its proposed outpatient rule.

The AMGA Public Policy team discusses how CMS rhetoric on prior authorization does not match the details of its new model, which extends prior authorization into fee-for-service Medicare for the first time.