AMA Adopts Principles for Physician Employment
CHICAGO - Nov. 13, 2012 - The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted new guiding principles for physicians entering into employment and contractual arrangements. The principles address the unique challenges to professionalism and the practice of medicine arising from the physician employment trend and were adopted at the AMA’s semi-annual policy-making meeting. “The AMA Principles for Physician Employment provide a broad framework to help guide physicians and their employers as they collaborate to