PSA for physicians in the US: "Your data is being sold by the AMA through their 'AMA Physician Professional Data' program"
PSA for physicians in the US: "Your data is being sold by the AMA through their 'AMA Physician Professional Data' program"
Saw this post on another site, and thought it would be helpful to link here
Go to the link to request that they add a Do Not Contact (DOC) or Do Not Release (DOC) restriction to their AMA Physician Professional Data record
I have worked on the Carrier side of malpractice insurance for nearly 10 years. Working in their marketing departments I can tell you this type of data was routinely purchased for mailers. If we wanted to we could buy full rights to the data, which allowed us to upload it into our SalesForce and CRM systems. They even offered to sell us data on physician computer activity by specialty so we could line up our email pushes with their most receptive times.
I have even heard of carriers purchasing patient billing data to help determine a physician's professional liability risk profile. So if you have what they would deem a "riskier" patient population, they could charge you more. The old way was based on a broad risk profile by specialty and procedure codes.