Health Insurance Competition

AMA in the NewsOct 30, 2020

AMA in the News: October 2020

Read media highlights mentioning the American Medical Association for October 2020.

Publications & NewslettersOct 16, 2020

Oct. 16, 2020: Advocacy spotlight on Competition declined in majority of health insurance markets where it is most scarce

Competition declined in majority of health insurance markets where it is most scarce in the latest Advocacy Update Spotlight.

Patient Support & AdvocacyOct 14, 2020

Is your town one of the least competitive health insurance markets?

As health insurance companies consolidate, market competition falls, leaving consumers with higher premiums and fewer choices and providers with lower payment.

Press ReleasesOct 14, 2020

Competition shrank in majority of health insurance markets where it is scarcest

New AMA study finds increasingly limited health insurance options for patients in highly concentrated markets.

State AdvocacyNov 8, 2019

State advocacy

Relentlessly working to advance important state legislative issues that protect patients and physicians.

Patient Support & AdvocacySep 26, 2019

CVS-Aetna merger

The AMA aims to protect patients and physicians by actively opposing anticompetitive health insurer mergers.

10 states with largest decrease in competition levels

Patient Support & AdvocacySep 26, 2019

10 states where health insurance competition has fallen the most

These states are part of a trend that increasingly puts patients and physicians at a disadvantage with large health plans.

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