About the Council on Medical Service (CMS)

Top row: Thomas Sullivan, MD; Jack McIntyre, MD; Donna Sweet, MD; Charles Willson, MD; Gerald Harmon, MD; Peter Lund, MD
Bottom row: James Hinsdale, MD; Samuel Mackenzie; Robert Hertzka, MD; Erick Eiting, MD; Alan Harmon, MD; Paul Wertsh, MD

Through its reports, the Council on Medical Service recommends AMA policies and actions for consideration by the AMA House of Delegates on the socioeconomic factors that influence the practice of medicine. Council reports cover a wide range of topics, including:

• Physician payment reform
• Medicare & Medicaid
• Health insurance
• Covering the uninsured and expanding choice
• Consumer-driven health care
• Health care costs
• Hospitals & hospital-based services
• Pharmaceutical coverage & spending
• e-Health
• Allied health professionals
• Other CMS Topics

Reports by House of Delegates meeting
Access full-text Council on Medical Service reports from June 1998 to the present.