Medicare

Medicare Payment Action Kit

AMA information & recommendations

Joint recommendations on eliminating the SGR and supporting efforts to promote health care quality and appropriateness. Endorsed by the AMA and 63 national medical organizations as of June 10, 2009

2009 Medicare Physician Payment Rates: What to Expect in Your Practice

Medicare physician payment advocacy documents

Map: 2010-2016 Medicare cuts in each state

Chart: practice costs vs Medicare payments

Chart: 2004-09 payment updates, physicians vs. other providers

Strategies to improve Medicare

Specialty hospitals: myths vs. facts

Medicare physician payment background material

Medicare final rule summary

Medicare final rule impact table

AMA comment letter on 2009 Medicare physician payment final rule Dec. 29, 2008

Update on recent physician self-referral regulations Dec. 2008

Medicare Participation Options for Physicians

AMA survey finds Medicare cuts will hurt seniors

Congressional testimony and correspondence

Sign-on letter to full Senate advocating elimination of the SGR, September 18, 2009

Sign-on letter to Congressional Budget Resolution Conferees urging support of inclusion of a provision to facilitate replacement of the SGR, April 13, 2009

Sign-on letter to Chairman Spratt, House Budget Committee, on Rebasing Medicare Physician Payment, March 23, 2009

AMA Chair Joseph Heyman's testimony to House Small Business Committee on permanent Medicare physician payment reform March 18, 2009

AMA President Nancy Nielsen's testimony to Congress on Medicare physician payment reform Sept. 11, 2008

AMA letter to representatives in support of H.R.6331

AMA letter to senators in support of H.R.6331