AMA Chief Quits Amid Finance Probe
The head of the American Medical Assn. has resigned because of an inquiry into financial transactions, the doctors’ group said Sunday.
James H. Sammons, chief executive of the 300,000-member organization, said he was retiring 10 months earlier than planned because the financial questions were interfering with his job.
“My concern was that there was so much inordinate time and energy that was going into answering all of these things, and the AMA has got to get on with the business of looking at the health care of this country,” he said in a statement.
Sammons, 62, has been under scrutiny for a $350,000 bailout in pension fund stock losses to one AMA executive and for a home loan to another association official. He has denied any impropriety.
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