An AMA membership means you are...

  • Working to extinguish physician burnout
  • Leading the charge on Medicare payment reform
  • Tackling the overused prior authorization process
  • Supporting physician-led team-based care
  • #FightingForDocs
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5 Min Read

AMA: Wake up to financial peril facing Medicare payment system

AMA raised concern today that Congress seems “indifferent” to the fiscal uncertainty facing the Medicare physician payment system.

Press Releases
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July 16, 2021: National Advocacy Update

2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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3 Min Read

U.S. health spending grew at 4.6% pace before pandemic hit

AMA research analyzes 2019 health spending and offers a preliminary glimpse at COVID-19’s impact on American health spending in 2020.

Research
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10 Min Read

Todd Askew on delay in Medicare cuts and its impact on practices

The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. See daily video updates on how the AMA is fighting COVID-19 by discussing the delay in Medicare cuts and and what it means for physician practices.

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Medicare & Medicaid
AMA Update
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Biden signs bill delaying 2% Medicare sequester pay cut until 2022

More action is needed to avoid 4% cut triggered by budgeting rules. Arbitrary, across-the-board physician pay cuts are ill-conceived pandemic policy.

Medicare & Medicaid
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4 Min Read

The bad news—and the good—about obesity and COVID-19

Learn with the AMA how patients’ experiences of the pandemic are giving physicians a fresh opportunity to tackle a longstanding disease.

Chronic Diseases
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1 Min Read

AMA statement on Congress postponing Medicare cuts during pandemic

The Senate and House, Democrats and Republicans, have overwhelmingly acknowledged that cutting Medicare payments during a pandemic is ill-conceived policy.

Press Releases
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3 Min Read

Why audio-only telehealth visits must continue

Phone visits have been a lifeline for vulnerable patients amid COVID-19 and payment for them should be maintained after the pandemic’s over.

Digital
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4 Min Read

How unthinking application of “two-midnight rule” can hurt patients

AMA Litigation Center tells federal court patients should have the right to challenge Medicare coverage decisions that reverse physicians’ judgments.

Judicial Advocacy