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AMA adopts strategy for coverage of new genetic tests, therapeutics

AMA voted to encourage the development of a comprehensive strategy that facilitates more consistent coverage of genetic/genomic tests and precision medicine.

Press Releases
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AMA adopts new policies on health insurance affordability

AMA voted to oppose weakening or removing any of the 10 categories of essential health benefits required by the Affordable Care Act.

Press Releases
Social worker speaking with an opioid patient.
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Time to adopt view of opioid-use disorder as chronic disease

Stigmatization and payers’ use of prior authorization can make it harder to deliver evidence-based treatment to the patients who need it.

Behavioral Health
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Nov. 3, 2017: Advocacy spotlight on Health insurance markets are highly concentrated, new report reveals

Health insurance markets are highly concentrated. Read a summary of AMA's annual report - Competition in Health Insurance: A Comprehensive Study of U.S. Markets.

Advocacy Update
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Nov. 3, 2017: State Advocacy Update

Massachusetts Medicaid waiver proposal, new pain courses from AAP and more in AMA's latest efforts for state and local advocacy.

Advocacy Update
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Physician data offer new insights into ACA’s coverage impact

A fresh view of gains in coverage comes from data supplied straight from physician practices. Medicaid expansion appears to play an important role.

Access to Care
The White House
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Opioids emergency declaration must be followed with smart action

Only 10 percent of patients with opioid-use disorder can access treatment. Regulatory and payment barriers must be eliminated to end the epidemic.

Behavioral Health
Close-up of US map with pins stuck in various locations.
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Health insurance markets are highly concentrated, new report reveals

Even though two mega-mergers were blocked, most commercial health insurance markets are highly concentrated, and many are dominated by one insurer.

Access to Care
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Metro areas increasingly dominated by single insurance companies

Findings of the 2017 edition of AMA’s Competition in Health Insurance: A Comprehensive Study of U.S. Markets which examines market concentration in 2016.

Press Releases