Physician Groups Press FTC For Exemption From Red Flag Rules

With a May 1st deadline for compliance looming, the American Medical Association (AMA) has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to suspend the application of the Red Flag Rules to physicians and publish a new rule so that physicians have an opportunity to provide comments. In a March 9 letter to the FTC, AMA Executive Vice President Michael D. Maves wrote that the AMA “strongly believes that the FTC did not provide physicians with an opportunity to review and comment on this Rule.”