AMA's efforts to improve Medicaid programs and expand coverage options for low-income patients

How Medicaid expansion has improved care access, outcomes

AMA policy opposing Medicaid caps had an immediate impact

Physicians oppose harmful changes to Medicaid, benefits rules

Patient Support & Advocacy

Health care 2020: Here’s where Congress and the states are headed

The AMA’s senior VP of advocacy offers expert insight on what physicians should expect, and advises doctors looking to make a mark with policymakers.

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Patient Support & Advocacy

Physicians will keep fighting on these 6 key issues in 2020

Health care policy debates must include the trusted voices of doctors advocating for their patients, says AMA President Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA.

Medicaid

Strengthening Medicaid

Read about the AMA's efforts to improve Medicaid programs and expand coverage options for low-income patients.

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Medicare

Medicaid fraud: Case would wrongly expand physician liability

If trial conviction stands, having no knowledge of how others billed Medicaid for your services would no longer be a viable defense when false-claim allegations arise.

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Patient Support & Advocacy

5 years of evidence shows how expanding Medicaid boosts health

Fourteen states refuse to expand Medicaid. Research shows they are doing their constituents a disservice in denying them the health benefits of expansion.

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Public Health

How Netflix-style plans could solve drug-spending dilemmas

States are locked in a zero-sum budget game when it comes to breakthrough medical treatments. Subscription drug pricing can help.

Patient Support & Advocacy

AMA vision on health care reform

Download the vision statement on the AMA's commitment to improving health insurance coverage and health care access.

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Patient Support & Advocacy

Court again blocks Medicaid work requirements, this time in New Hampshire

Federal judges side with the AMA and patients to block state plan estimated to result in tens of thousands of people losing health coverage.

Essential Medicaid Tools & Resources

Evaluating Medicaid value-based care homes

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