Hospitals and Hospital-Based Services
Listed below are Council on Medical Service (CMS) reports from June 1998 to the present related to hospitals and hospital-based services. The recommendations in these reports reflect the final actions of the AMA House of Delegates and are official AMA policy.
Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding
CMS Report 3, A-09
Appropriate Hospital Charges
CMS Report 4, A-09
Access to Psychiatric Beds and Impact on Emergency Medicine
CMS Report 2, A-08
Fiduciary Credentialing
CMS Report 2, A-06
Payment for Emergency Services
CMS Report 5, A-03
Medicare Payment for the Medical Direction and Supervision of Hospital-Based Clinical Laboratories
CMS 2, I-02
Hospital and Physician Payment for Uncompensated Care, Teaching, and Research
CMS Report 7, I-02
Overcrowding and Hospital EMS Diversion
CMS Report 1, A-02
The Effects of Closing Safety-Net Hospitals
CMS Report 3, I-01
Hospital Merger Study
CMS Report 4, I-01
Criteria for Level of Care Status
CMS Report 5, I-01/December 2001
Hospital Merger Study
CMS Report 7, I-00
Hospital-Based Physician Contracting
CMS Report 3, A-00
On-Call Physicians
CMS Report 3, I-99
Clinical Supervision
CMS Report 3, A-99
Coerced Employment of Physicians
CMS Report 4, A-99
Veterans Administration Hospital System
CMS Report 8, A-99
Benefits and Obligations of Tax-Exempt Status of Health Care Organizations
CMS Report 15, A-99
Hospital Billings on Behalf of Physicians
CMS Report 6, I-98
Tax-Exempt Status of Health Care Organizations
CMS Report 12, I-98
The Emerging Use of Hospitalists
CMS Report 4, A-98
Rewards for Efficient Hospital Care
CMS Report 15, A-98
