About the Council on Medical Service (CMS)
Top row: Paul Wertsh, MD; Gerald Harmon, MD; William Kobler, MD; Thomas Sullivan, MD; Donna Sweet, MD; James Hinsdale, MD; Peter Lund, MD
Bottom row: Erick Eiting, MD; Robert Hertzka, MD; Charles Willson, MD; Erin Whitaker, PhD; Jack McIntyre, MD (not pictured)
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.
