Council on Medical Service health care reform reports

These Council on Medical Service reports relate to the AMA vision for health care reform and its commitment to improving health insurance coverage and health care access.

AMA vision for health care reform

• Essential Health Care Benefits (PDF)
• Health Insurance Affordability (PDF)
• Health Savings Accounts (PDF)
• Individual Responsibility to Obtain Health Insurance (PDF)
• Individually Selected, Individually Owned Health Insurance (PDF)
• Network Adequacy (PDF)
• Principles for Structuring Health Insurance Tax Credits (PDF)

• Reports from 2007 to the present

• Reports from 1998 to the present

• Health Care while Incarcerated (PDF)
• Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health Care (PDF)
• Hospital Discharge Communications (PDF)
• Prior Authorization Simplification and Standardization (PDF)

• Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion (PDF)
• Delivery of Care and Financing Reform for Medicare and Medicaid Dually Eligible Beneficiaries (PDF)
• Medicaid Coverage of Adults in Psychiatric Hospitals (PDF)
• Medicaid Expansion Options and Alternatives (PDF)
• Medicaid Financing Reform (PDF)
• Medicaid Primary Care Payment Increases (PDF)
• Medicaid Waivers and Maintenance of Effort Requirements (PDF)
• Medical Care for Patients with Low Incomes (PDF)
• No Child Left Uninsured (PDF)
• Physician-Focused Alternative Payment Models (PDF)
• Strategies to Strengthen the Medicare Program (PDF)
• Strengthening Medicare for Current and Future Generations (PDF)

• Incorporating Value into Pharmaceutical Pricing (PDF)
• Payment for Biologic and Pharmacologic Agents (PDF)
• Pharmaceutical Costs (PDF)