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  • Working to extinguish physician burnout
  • Leading the charge on Medicare payment reform
  • Tackling the overused prior authorization process
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Michaela Sternstein
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To advance AMA Recovery Plan, physicians’ voices are essential

To fix Medicare physician payment and achieve other key goals, doctors must be bold in sharing their stories and asking lawmakers for help.

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Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians
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Proposed 3.36% Medicare pay cut shows why overhaul is badly needed

The cost of practicing medicine will rise 4.5%, yet physician pay is set to fall. The AMA is building momentum in Congress to fix Medicare now.

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Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians
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2 Min Read

AMA: Medicare physician payment proposal a wake-up call for Congress

CMS proposes cutting physician payments by 3.3 percent.

Press Releases
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June 30, 2023: National Advocacy Update

Congressional hearing held to examine Medicare physician payment system and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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AMA leads on Medicare reform

Help the AMA fight to protect physician payment and patients’ access to care. Learn more.

Medicare & Medicaid
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Medical profession speaks with one voice: Fix Medicare—now

When the AMA House of Delegates acts, it represents medicine’s voice. They are unified on overhauling the broken Medicare physician pay system.

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Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians
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2 Min Read

​​​​​​​June 16, 2023: Advocacy Update spotlight on new Fix Medicare Now website

Learn how you can get involved in the fight to #FixMedicareNow and more in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.

Advocacy Update
Silhouettes of Bruce Scott, MD, and Lisa Egbert, MD, at the 2023 Annual Meeting
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ICYMI: 10 stories to read from the 2023 AMA Annual Meeting

Doctors send an unmistakable message: Fix Medicare now. Delegates also took actions on prior authorization, scope of practice, burnout and telehealth.

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Annual Meeting
Fighting for Physicians
Jack Resneck Jr., MD, 2023 Annual Medicare policy
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Fixing Medicare physician pay system a top priority for the AMA

The broken payment system is on an unsustainable path. Physicians have the right ideas to overhaul it, and new AMA campaign will make Washington listen.

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Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians