
Listed below are direct links to the Council on Medical Service CMS reports from the June 1999 Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates. The recommendations in these reports reflect the final actions of the House of Delegates and are official AMA policy.
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Non-Physician Prescribing (Word, 179KB)
CMS Report 1, A-99
Status Report on Increasing Access to the Uninsured (Word, 132KB)
CMS Report 2, A-99
Clinical Supervision (Word, 62KB)
CMS Report 3, A-99
Coerced Employment of Physicians (Word, 32KB)
CMS Report 4, A-99
Employer Purchasing Alliances: An Evolutionary Step Toward “Voluntary Choice Cooperatives” Under Individually Selected and Owned Health Insurance (PDF, 60KB)
CMS Report 5, A-99
Private Contracting by Medicare Patients (Word, 70KB)
CMS Report 6, A-99
Appropriate Payment Level Differences by Place and Type of Service (Word, 85KB)
CMS Report 7, A-99
Veterans Administration Hospital System (Word, 35KB)
CMS Report 8, A-99
Reimbursement of Screening Bone Densitometry (Word, 80KB)
CMS Report 9, A-99
Medicare Coverage for GGTP Assays as Part of Alcoholism Screening (Word, 42KB)
CMS Report 10, A-99
Medicare Review Activities (Word, 72KB)
CMS Report 11, A-99
Relative Value Unit Based Reimbursement (Word, 49KB)
CMS Report 12, A-99
Electronic Data Interchange Status Report (Word, 51KB)
CMS Report 13, A-99
Computerized Programs that Retrieve Incidence and Prevalence Data about Billing Codes by Payer (Word, 46KB)
CMS Report 14, A-99
Benefits and Obligations of Tax-Exempt Status of Health Care Organizations (Word, 32KB)
CMS Report 15, A-99