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Reference Committee B (Legislation)

If you are an AMA member and would like to comment on any of the reports or resolutions listed on this page, please contact us. Please provide your name along with your comments so they can be provided to the reference committee for its deliberations on the issue.

The following reports and resolutions are provided below as Word documents.

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Reports

Reports of the Board of Trustees
Report 3 Prescription Drug Monitoring to Prevent Abuse of Controlled Substances (70KB)
Report 5 Council on Legislation Sunset Review of 1998 House Policies (102KB)
Report 9 Surrogate Requirement for Nursing Home Residents (61KB)
Report 17 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Policy on Hospital Acquired Conditions - Present on Admission (57KB) REVISED
Report 18 Legal Protections for Medical Peer Review (77KB)
Report 32 Support for Appropriate Billing and Payment Procedures by Physicians (Resolution 921, I-07) (49KB)

Resolutions
Resolution 201 Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring (33KB)
Resolution 202 Fitness and Athletics Equity for Students with Disabilities (28KB)
Resolution 203 Office for Human Research Protections Interpretation of 45 CFR Part 46 (34KB)
Resolution 204 Midwifery Scope of Practice and Licensure (39KB)
Resolution 205 Home Deliveries (32KB)
Resolution 206 Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act (39KB)
Resolution 207 Ambulatory Surgical Centers (33KB)
Resolution 208 Fairness in Medical Imaging Interpretation (33KB) REVISED
Resolution 209 Blood Transfusion and Medical Liability (33KB)
Resolution 210 Surgical Sterilization and Family PACT Eligibility (30KB)
Resolution 211 Advance Directive (38KB)
Resolution 212 Elimination of Physician's "Appointment for Representative" Requirement in Medicare Prescription Drug Program Appeals (33KB)
Resolution 213 Payment Neutrality Between Medicare Advantage and Traditional Fee-for-Service Medicare (38KB)
Resolution 214 Doctor of Nursing Practice (31KB)
Resolution 215 Shadegg Bill (Health Care Choice Act) (32KB)
Resolution 216 Anti-Trust Law (29KB)
Resolution 217 Appropriate Oversight of Physicians' Practices (29KB)
Resolution 218 Support the Removal of Limiting Charges for Physicians' Services Under Medicare (31KB)
Resolution 219 Michigan Patient Compensation as Tort Reform Alternative (29KB)
Resolution 220 Bill of Rights for J-1 Visa Holding Physicians (28KB)
Resolution 221 New Strategies to Achieve Antitrust Reform (35KB)
Resolution 222 Legislation to Improve Readability of Hearing Loss Warning on Cotton Swab Packages (30KB)
Resolution 223 Support the "Sorry Works" Program (29KB)
Resolution 224 Medicare Private Contracting Opt-Out Renewal Requirement (32KB)
Resolution 225 HHS and Hospital Acquired Conditions (43KB)
Resolution 226 Member Education on Medicare Recovery Audit Contactors (32KB)
Resolution 227 Establishing a "National Standard of Care" in the US (30KB)
Resolution 228 Payment and Coverage Decisions and the Standard of Care for Medical Practice (30KB)
Resolution 229 Medicare Denial of Reimbursement for Certain Unavoidable Complications (29KB)
Resolution 230 Federal Roadblocks to E-Prescribing (35KB)
Resolution 231 Medicare "Never Events" Payment Policy (43KB)
Resolution 232 Protection of the Titles "Doctor," "Resident" and "Residency" (29KB)
Resolution 233 Replacing "Surrogate Requirement for Nursing Home Residents" (29KB)
Resolution 234 Private Contracting and Balance Billing (27KB)
Resolution 235 Physician Seeking Regulation of Physicians (31KB)
Resolution 236 Medicare Advantage Program Budget Reduction (32KB)
Resolution 237 E-Prescribing (30KB)
Resolution 238 Uniform Standard of Evidence for Medical License Complaints (31KB)
Resolution 239 Midwifery Scope of Practice and Licensure (38KB)
Resolution 240 Herpes Zoster Vaccine and Medicare Payment for the Vaccine and for Physician Administration of the Vaccine (33KB)

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