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AMA offers new payment concept to reward high-value specialty care

To help inform a new government strategy, AMA offers an APM approach that primary care and specialist physicians can use to improve outcomes.

Payment & Delivery Models
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AMA holds fast to principle: Reproductive care is health care

In the chaos after Dobbs ruling, delegates move to protect patients and doctors from government interference and expand access to abortion care.

Population Health
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AMA adopts policy protecting students from private equity impact in schools

The AMA adopted policy during the Interim Meeting of its House of Delegates aimed at providing protections for residents who train at these teaching hospitals.

Press Releases
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AMA announces new adopted policies related to reproductive health care

The AMA HOD adopted policies to ensure access to reproductive health care & preventing government interference in the medical practice in post-Dobbs world.

Press Releases
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AMA to urge using opioid litigation funds to train physicians in opioid treatment

The AMA expanded its opioid litigation policy to emphasize using a portion of the settlement funds to expand physician training for treating opioid use disorder.

Press Releases
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Bipartisan support in Congress for extending 5% APM incentives

The alternative payment model (APM) incentives save Medicare money and improve care, yet will end this year if Congress fails to act. Learn more.

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Payment & Delivery Models
Fighting for Physicians
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AMA to establish task force focused on firearm violence prevention

New task force focuses on firearm violence prevention, building on more than 30 policy recommendations adopted over past two decades by AMA House of Delegates.

Press Releases
Jack Resneck Jr., MD, at the 2022 Interim Meeting
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Physicians must be empowered to put patients first: AMA president

Obstacles to care emerge from prior auth, Medicare cuts and politicized exam rooms. President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, details how AMA has doctors’ backs.

Interim Meeting
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Nov. 11, 2022: Advocacy Update spotlight on Medicare payment

What’s happening with Medicare payment now and more in the latest Advocacy Spotlight.

Advocacy Update