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June 20, 2025: Advocacy Update spotlight on 2025 AMA Annual Meeting

Highlights from the 2025 AMA Annual Meeting and more in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.

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Medicare Trustees warn about access to care for seniors

Report says Medicare-participating physicians face “significant” issues.

Press Releases
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Health care costs & value: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that have proposed strategies to address health care costs and promote value in health care spending.

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Health insurance: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that have proposed strategies to address health insurer actions that interfere with the patient/physician relationship and impact the practice of medicine. Such topics include prior authorization, covered benefits, and affordability of health insurance.

Medical Service
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Physician payment reform: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that contribute to the policy options for reforming physician payment. Key council reports on this topic have addressed APMs, Medicaid expansion, the site-of-service differential and high-value care.

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MIPS penalties once again hit smaller practices the hardest

Nearly half of solo practices were penalized in 2025. Explore the latest stats and how to replace MIPS with a data-driven system.

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Payment & Delivery Models
Fighting for Physicians
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MedPAC calls for long-term Medicare physician payment reform

MedPAC recommends overhauling Medicare updates of physician payments in line with an approach the AMA has championed.

Press Releases
Sen. Roger Marshall, MD
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Senate bill would provide 2% Medicare pay boost for 2025

After half a decade of physician payment cuts, the AMA supports a bipartisan bill introduced by Sen. Roger Marshall, MD. 

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Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians
Bobby Mukkamala, MD, at inauguration: 2025 Annual Meeting
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New AMA president: “Determined” physicians can lead health care reform

After surviving a brain tumor, Bobby Mukkamala, MD, begins his term with new perspective on the urgency needed to fix the U.S. health system’s flaws.

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