IPPS Representative Application
  • Integrated Physician Practice Section Membership Application

  • The Integrated Physician Practice Section (IPPS) gives voice to, and advocates for, issues that impact physicians in practice settings who advance physician-led integrated care. Shape AMA policy on issues that impact integated care by serving as your organization's IPPS representative. 

  • Health care organization information

    Please provide information about the organization you will be representing.
  • Organization Characteristics

    An organization must meet the following characteristics of physician-led, integrated health care organizations to qualify its physician members as Associate Members of the IPPS.
  • Has physicians in defined leadership roles at high levels in the organization, with meaningful decision authority and/or input regarding strategic, quality and operational issues, as well as a defined communication channel to the organization’s governing body.

  • Commits to advancing value-based care as a top priority which includes all of the following six characteristics:

  • 1. Coordinate care across multiple conditions, venues, providers, and settings over time.

  • 2. Utilize shared, patient centered data (i.e., common or at least shared medical records that follow the patient rather than the doctor).

  • 3. Implement evidence-based clinical care processes using guidelines, pathways, protocols, checklists and related tools.

  • 4. Apply performance and outcomes measures for both internal quality improvement and external accountability.

  • 5. Apply interventions that can improve health outcomes at both the individual patient and population health levels.

  • 6. Operate under a payment methodology that considers value over volume.

  • Representative information

  • Certification and Submission

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