Health care coverage & choice: Council on Medical Service reports

These council reports have proposed strategies establishing the AMA vision for health system reform to cover the uninsured and expand health insurance coverage and choice.

Council on Medical Service Reports

Review reports and issue briefs prepared by the council. 

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2023

• Medicare Coverage of Dental, Vision and Hearing (PDF) CMS Report 02-A-23
• Private Insurer Payment Integrity (PDF) CMS Report 03-A-23
• Health Care Marketplace Plan Selection (PDF) CMS Report 06-A-23

• Preventing Coverage Losses After the Public Health Emergency Ends (PDF) CMS Report 03-A-22. Read the issue brief for this report: Preventing Coverage Losses as the PHE Unwinds (PDF).

• Reducing Inequities and Improving Access to Insurance for Maternal Health Care (PDF) CMS-CSAPH joint report N-21
• Covering the Remaining Uninsured (PDF) CMS Report 3-N-21

• Options to Maximize Coverage Under the AMA Proposal for Reform (PDF) CMS Report 1-November 2020
• Mitigating the Negative Effects of High-Deductible Health Plans (PDF) CMS Report 2-November 2020. Read the issue brief for this report: Mitigating Negative Impacts of High-Deductible Health Plans (PDF).
• Medicaid Reform (PDF) CMS Report 5-November 2020. Read the issue brief for this report: Medicaid Reform (PDF).
• Health Plan Initiatives Addressing Social Determinants of Health (PDF) CMS Report 7-November 2020

• Covering the Uninsured under the AMA Proposal for Reform (PDF) CMS report 2-A-19. Read the issue briefs for this report: 2020 and Beyond: AMA’s Plan to Cover the Uninsured (PDF).
• Medicare Coverage for Dental Services (PDF) CMS report 3-A-19
• Preventive Prostate Cancer Screening (PDF) CMS report 6-A-19

• Aligning Clinical and Financial incentives for High-Value Care (PDF) CMS/CSAPH joint report I-18. Read the issue briefs for this report: Promoting Access to High-Value Care (PDF) and Value-Based insurance Design (PDF). 
• Coverage for Colorectal Cancer Screening (PDF) CMS-CSAPH joint report A-18
• Improving Affordability in the Health insurance Exchanges (PDF) CMS report 2-A-18. Read the issue briefs for this report: Improving Health insurance Affordability (PDF), Taking Steps forward to Cover the Uninsured (PDF), and Using Reinsurance to Stabilize and Strengthen the individual Market (PDF).
• Ensuring Marketplace Competition and Health Plan Choice (PDF) CMS report 3-A-18. Read the issue briefs for this report: Improving Health insurance Affordability (PDF) and Taking Steps forward to Cover the Uninsured (PDF).
• Insulin Affordability (PDF) CMS report 7-A-18

• Health Care Financing Models (PDF) CMS report 2-A-17
• Ensuring Continuity of Care Protections During Active Courses of Treatment (PDF) CMS report 3-A-17
• Expansion of U.S. Veterans’ Health Care Choices (PDF) CMS report 6-A-17
• Affordable Care Act Section 1332 Waivers (PDF) CMS report 1-I-17. Read the Issue Briefs for This report: Improving Health insurance Affordability (PDF) and Taking Steps forward to Cover the Uninsured (PDF). 
• Health insurance Affordability: Essential Health Benefits and Subsidizing the Coverage of High-Risk Patients (PDF) CMS report 4-I-17. Read the issue briefs for this report: Improving Health insurance Affordability (PDF), Taking Steps forward to Cover the Uninsured (PDF), and Using Reinsurance to Stabilize and Strengthen the individual Market (PDF).
• Payment and Coverage for Genetic/Genomic Precision Medicine (PDF) CMS/CSAPH joint report I-17

• Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion (PDF) CMS report 2-A-16. Read the issue brief for this report: Taking Steps Forward to Cover the Uninsured (PDF). 
• Health Care While Incarcerated (PDF) CMS report 2-I-16

• Coverage for Chronic Pain Management (PDF) CMS/CSAPH joint report A-15
• Health insurance Affordability (PDF) CMS report 8-I-15. Read the issue briefs for this report: Improving Health insurance Affordability (PDF) and Taking Steps Forward to Cover the Uninsured (PDF).

• Improving the Affordable Care Act (PDF) CMS report 9-A-14
• Reference Pricing (PDF) CMS report 3-I-14
• Network Adequacy (PDF) CMS report 4-I-14
• Medicaid Expansion Options and Alternatives (PDF) CMS report 5-I-14
• The Future of Employer-Sponsored insurance (PDF) CMS report 6-I-14

• Worksite Health Clinics (PDF) CMS report 1-A-13
• Monitoring the Affordable Care Act (PDF) CMS report 5-I-13

• Medicaid Financing Reform (PDF) CMS report 1-A-12
• Basic Health Program (PDF) CMS report 5-A-12
• Small Businesses and Health Reform (PDF) CMS report 6-A-12
• the Structure and Function of Interprofessional Health Care Teams (PDF) CME-CMS joint report I-12

• Physician Tax Credits for Uncompensated Care (PDF) CMS report 2-I-11
• Designation of the intellectually Disabled as a Medically Underserved Population (PDF) CMS report 3-I-11

• Protecting the Patient-Physician Relationship (PDF) CMS report 4-A-10

• Free Clinics and the Uninsured (PDF) CMS report 1-A-09
• Components of Health insurance (PDF) CMS report 2-A-09
• Effects of the Massachusetts Reform Effort and the individual Mandate (PDF) CMS report 7-A-09
• Health insurance Exchange Authority and Operation (PDF) CMS report 3-I-09

• Tax Implications of Eliminating the Employee Income Tax Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored insurance (PDF) CMS report 5-A-08
• Acceptance of TRICARE Health insurance (PDF) CMS report 2 - I-08
• The Tax Treatment of Health Savings Accounts (PDF) CMS report 7 - I-08
• Tax Deductibility of Employer Contributions toward Employee Health insurance and Health Care Expenses (PDF) CMS report 8-I-08

• No Child Left Uninsured (PDF) CMS report 1 - A-07
• Financial Impact of Immigration on American Health System (PDF) CMS report 3-A-07
• Health insurance Coverage for College Students (PDF) CMS report 4-A-07
• Update in Store-Based Health Clinics (PDF) CMS report 5-A-07
• Adequacy of Health Insurance Coverage (PDF) CMS report 7-A-07
• Health insurance Coverage of High-Risk Patients (PDF) CMS report 2-I-07
• State Efforts to Expand Coverage to the Uninsured (PDF) CMS report 3-I-07
• Trends in Employment-Based Health insurance (PDF) CMS report 4-I-07
• Health insurance Subsidies: Tax Deductions and Tax Credits (PDF) CMS report 5 - I-07

• Individual Responsibility to Obtain Health insurance (PDF) CMS report 3-A-06
• Expanding Health Insurance Coverage to the Uninsured: 2007 and Beyond (PDF) CMS report 5-I-06

• State Options to Improve Coverage for the Poor (PDF) CMS report 1-A-05
• Containing Catastrophic Care Cost (PDF) CMS report 5 -A-05
• Update on the individual Health Insurance Market (PDF) CMS report 6-A-05
• Offsetting the Costs of Providing Uncompensated Care (PDF) CMS report 8-A-05
• Status report on Expanding Health Care Coverage to all Individuals With an Emphasis on the Uninsured (PDF) CMS report 1-I-05
• Reinsurance and the Health Insurance Market (PDF) CMS report 4 - I-05
• Association Health Plans (PDF) CMS report 5-I-05

• Comparing Health Insurance Premium Subsidies and Tax Credits (PDF) CMS report 2-A-04
• Federal Health Insurance Reserve System (PDF) CMS report 3-A-04
• Health Savings Accounts (PDF) CMS report 6-A-04
• Options for Implementing and Financing Tax Credits for individually Selected and Owned Health insurance (PDF) CMS report 4-I-04
• Private Sector Options for Financing Long-Term Care (PDF) CMS report 5-I-04

• Establishing Multi-Year Mutual MSA Trust Accounts (PDF) CMS report 2-A-03
• Health Care Benefit Discrepancies for Small Employers Under COBRA (PDF) CMS report 3-A-03
• Health Insurance Market Regulation (PDF) CMS report 7-A-03
• Health Coverage Tax Credit Program Under the Trade Act of 2002 (PDF) CMS report 11-A-03
• Health Reimbursement Arrangements (PDF) CMS report 3-I-03

• Coverage for Periodic Preventive Medical Evaluations and Services (PDF) CMS report 3-A-02
• Impact of Eliminating the Current Threshold for Deductibility of Medical Expenses (PDF) CMS report 5-A-02
• Advocating Health Insurance Tax Credits (PDF) CMS report 10-A-02
• Tax Relief for Physicians Serving Uninsured and Underinsured Patients (PDF) CMS report 5-I-02
• Hospital and Physician Payment for Uncompensated Care, Teaching, and Research (PDF) CMS report 7-I-02
• Review of U.S. Health System Financing (PDF) CMS report 8-I-02

• The Effects of individually Owned Health insurance on Risk Pooling and Cross-Subsidization (PDF) CMS report 3-A-01
• Evolving internet-Based Health Insurance Marts (PDF) CMS report 5-A-01
• Status report on Expanding Coverage for the Uninsured (PDF) CMS report 6-A-01
• Uninsured Immigrants (PDF) CMS report 8-A-01
• Transitional Issues in Moving toward A System of individually Selected and Owned Health insurance (PDF) CMS report 2-I-01

• Principles for Structuring Health Insurance Tax Credits (PDF) CMS report 4-A-00
• Benefits and limitations of an individual mandate for individually owned health insurance (PDF) CMS report 5-A-00

• Status report on increasing Access for the Uninsured (PDF) CMS report 2-A-99
• Employer Purchasing Alliances: An Evolutionary Step Toward "Voluntary Choice Cooperatives" Under Individually Selected and Owned Health insurance (PDF) CMS report 5-A-99
• Non-Medicare Use of the RBRVS (PDF) CMS report 12-A-99
• insurance Coverage for Adults With Congenital and/Or Childhood Diseases (PDF) CMS report 2-I-99
• Status report on the Medicaid Program (PDF) CMS report 5-I-99
• Critical Expansion of Medical Savings Accounts (PDF) CMS report 10 I-99
• Tax Credit Simulation Project (PDF) CMS report 16- I-99

• Increasing Access to Health Care Services for Children Through the Use of Tax Credits or Deductions (PDF) CMS report 2- A-98
• Individually Selected (PDF) CMS report 9-A-98
• Adverse Selection Against Generous Health Insurance Under Defined Contribution Systems (PDF) CMS report 11-A-98
• Consumer-Driven Health Care (PDF) CMS report 12-A-98
• Health insurance for Domestic Partners (PDF) CMS report 3-I-98
• Defining the Uninsured and Underinsured (PDF) CMS report 15- I-98

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