AMA Shows Their Lack of Backbone
Robert Duprey MD described the Stop Scope Creep campaign this morning. The tweet by the AMA had LELTs (Less educated, Less Trained) losing their minds. Should the AMA have cared? No! None of these non-doctors, responding on Twitter, had ever supported the AMA with any money. Only doctors do. This campaign actually started to give physicians hope that the AMA was on their side. In fact, many docs started to have their ears perked by this tweet and were commenting positively about the AMA on FB and on Twitter. Then, like the cowards they are, the AMA deleted it. One has to wonder if the whole Stop Scope Creep will be deleted as well. Thanks, AMA, for nothing once again. You continue to remind us all why we left you. I highly recommend doctors look at other organizations like Physicians for Patient Protection to help this dangerous trend of LELTs and professional appropriation.
I stopped AMA membership years ago and agree, they wasted a lot of money on renewal notices. No way in Hades were they going to get me back. Glad I retired but that’s a sad thing to say about this situation: Quit if you can but many can’t afford to do that.
I wonder how much money the AMA spends billing me for my “membership” every month (which I haven’t paid ever…haven’t been an AMA member since my gratis med student membership)? They have certainly made a hefty contribution to my junk mail recycling pile over the years…it’s to the point now that I can recognize their BS mailings without even opening the envelope!
Whatever you do (unless you are in a concierge practice), do not forget to make sure to pay the AMA their annual royalty fee which gives you the right to bill using CPT codes (which are the property of the AMA). These constitute a major source of revenue (more than membership dues). And the salaries of the AMA officers are public info. Look them up if do not mind getting a little mad.
I wonder how strictly they enforce penalties against those of us who do not pay. You can find any code you may need via GOOGLE- will that stop?
Perhaps they should just send every doctor an annual bill that we could pay along with our medical license and malpractice insurance. I wonder if CPT codes are used in other countries?