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Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of Council on Medical Service reports and issue briefs.

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Consumer-driven health care: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of key council reports that advance policies that emphasize patient choice and control of their health care by addressing high-value care, retail/store-based clinics, addiction treatment centers, genetic/genomic precision medicine, telemedicine, insurance coverage options, reference pricing, prescription drugs, and hospital care coordination.

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Drug coverage & spending: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that have proposed strategies to address high and escalating prescription drug prices and costs, including promoting transparency and pharmaceutical market competition, combating anti-competitive practices, and outlining criteria for value-based pricing and prescription drug importation.

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Bobby Mukkamala, MD, address at the 2025 Interim Meeting of the HOD

In an address to the AMA House of Delegates at the 2025 AMA Interim Meeting, Bobby Mukkamala, MD, urges physicians to fight for a more just, sustainable, and humane health care system. Access the recording and transcript of the speech.

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AMA president highlights how an assertive AMA is driving change in Washington

AMA President Bobby Mukkamala, M.D., outlined the biggest challenges facing medicine and touted recent bipartisan wins for physicians and patients.

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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of Oct. 27, 2025

In the news: Stillbirths more common in U.S. than previously reported, GLP-1s show promise in treating substance use disorders and more. 

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Oct. 31, 2025: National Advocacy Update

FDA issues new guidance aimed at speeding biosimilar time to market and lower costs, and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

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Public health: CSAPH reports

Download PDFs of reports on this topic for the Council on Science and Public Health (CSAPH) presented during the AMA Interim and Annual Meetings.

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Oct. 10, 2025: National Advocacy Update

Congressional outreach on H-1B physician fee exemption and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

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