AMA advocacy drives action & results
At the state level, the AMA shapes the policy of influential national policymaking organizations, partners with outside experts and stakeholder groups and influences the enactment and/or defeat of state legislation and regulations.
Advocacy Resource Center (ARC)
The American Medical Association Advocacy Resource Center is a tireless advocate for physicians and their patients. We are dedicated to working directly with state medical and specialty societies to enact laws that enhance the practice of medicine—and to defeat those laws that detract from this mission. We assist state lawmakers and policymakers and respond to the challenges of new regulations in an evolving health care system. By providing expertise to stakeholders on critical health care issues —through direct advocacy, strategies, counsel on best practices, model legislation, useful tools and other resources—we help advance and address issues that matter to physicians and patients.
State legislative and regulatory priorities
Learn about the AMA’s state legislative and regulatory priorities, including recent advocacy achievements.
- AMA advocacy efforts
- AMA Advocacy Resource Center brochure (PDF)
- AMA model bills
- Federal & state correspondence finder
- Physician health and wellness (PDF)
- Prior authorization
- Telehealth
- Scope of practice
- Physician-led team-based care
- Truth in advertising
- Nation’s drug overdose and death epidemic
- Ensuring health insurance competition
- CVS-Aetna merger
- State medical liability reform
- Improving provider networks and access to care
- Public health improvement
- Strengthening Medicaid
- Economic impact study
State Advocacy Summit
More than 300 physician leaders and medical society staff attend the annual AMA State Advocacy Summit, held in January. Attendees have the opportunity to:
- Hear from national experts on the critical issues impacting medicine at the state level
- Strategize with advocacy leaders on their organizations’ state legislative and regulatory priorities
- Network with other physician leaders and colleagues from across the country
Contact
For contact information, please view the ARC staff directory (PDF).
National advocacy
Learn what the AMA is doing to better the nation’s health and empower physicians with our national legislative and regulatory priorities, including recent advocacy wins.
