AMA Membership Moves Medicine™

An AMA membership means you're helping move medicine in the right direction.

Advocating for physicians

Stopping insurance mega-mergers

Last year, the AMA blocked two insurance mega-mergers and effectively protected over $500 million in annual physicians’ payments.

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Preventing physician payment cuts

Saved physicians from cuts in the recent budget bill that would have reduced Medicare physician payment updates.

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Successfully repealed IPAB

Successfully sought repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, which could have imposed arbitrary cuts to physicians and affected access to care for Medicare patients.

Advancing patient care

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Fought for flexibility of EHR reporting

Repealed the statutory requirement that EHR measures in reporting programs for physicians must become more stringent over time.

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Defeated scope of practice expansion for APRNs

Working with our colleagues in state and specialty medical societies, we defeated or significantly modified bills that would have expanded advanced practice nursing scope of practice in various states.

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Convinced CMS to remove surgical global period

Working with the RUC and national medical specialty societies, the AMA convinced Congress and CMS to abandon a proposal to remove the surgical global period for procedures.

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