The American Medical Association (AMA) contracted with Mathematica, an independent research company, to conduct the AMA Physician Practice Information Survey.
Email recipients are not publicly known and the AMA will not disclose the recipients names.
There are two elements to the PPI survey—a financial survey and a physician hours survey.
Why This Survey is Important
The input from physician practices and individual physicians that are randomly selected to participate in this study is critical for its success and will help shape the future of Medicare physician pay. Participation will ensure that practice expenses and patient-care hours are accurately reflected.
This is particularly important for Radiology and Interventional specialists to ensure the survey results – and ultimate payment rates – reflect these important specialties’ higher practice expenses.
Deadline
The survey will period is extended through June 2024. All physicians who are selected for the surveys must respond as soon as possible. It is very important that we get enough responses to have accurate and statistically valid physician cost data.
About the Survey
The purpose of the survey is to better understand the costs faced by today’s physician practices to support physician payment advocacy. The study will serve as an opportunity to communicate accurate financial information to policymakers, including members of Congress and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The Medicare physician payment schedule, maintained by CMS and used by many other payors, currently relies on 2006 cost information to develop practice expense relative values, the Medicare Economic Index and resulting physician payments. As the U.S. economy and health care system have undergone substantial changes since that time, including inflation and the wide-spread adoption of electronic health records and other information technology systems, practice expense payments no longer accurately reflect the relative resources that are typically required to provide physician services.
If contacted AMA and Mathematica will make data collection as convenient for you and your practice as possible and assure you that your individual data will be kept private. Participation is voluntary but critical to the success of efforts to support accurate resource-based physician payment.
Check Email for AMA Practice Expense Survey
Practices are encouraged to watch their emails for survey invitations.
The subject line for the PPI Survey invitation email will read, “American Medical Association requests your input on physician practice expense and patient care hours.”
The subject line for the Physician Hours Survey invitation email will read, “Please help to update accurate physician payments.”
Invitations and reminders about the PPI Survey will be sent to financial experts in the practice and will come from PPISurvey@mathematica-mpr.com. Invitations and reminders about the Physician Hours Survey will be distributed to physicians and will come from PhysicianHoursSurvey@mathematica-mpr.com or from the practice directly.
Learn More
Learn more about this survey at AMA link here.
