Bureaucratic hassles can discourage physicians from seeing new Medicaid patients.

Physicians are seldom named in false claims cases but are often in a position to blow the whistle on fraud they observe.

The nominee has proposed creating a federal health board to increase the transparency and value of health care spending.

Physicians can expect to see more information about their malpractice payments, disciplinary actions and other identifying data being made easily accessible online.

The awards were presented during the AMA's Interim Meeting in November.