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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
Figure walks on a tightrope
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12 ways to cut health care red tape and improve care

The Trump administration wants info on rules it can scrap or revise to ease physicians’ regulatory burdens. The AMA offers details on a dirty dozen.

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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.

Medical Service
Health care worker opening a door in a hospital
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The physician shortage will worsen—unless Congress acts now

Congress has an opportunity to reverse the worsening physician shortage and bolster access to care for millions of people. 

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Leadership Viewpoints
2025 Annual Meeting of the HOD opening session
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Highlights from the 2025 AMA Annual Meeting

Catch up with news and key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting, which ran June 6–11.

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Fighting for Physicians
Bobby Mukkamala, MD
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President Bobby Mukkamala, MD, inauguration address, 2025 Annual Meeting

AMA President Bobby Mukkamala, MD, addresses the House of Delegates at the 2025 Annual Meeting. Access the transcript of the speech or recording.

Speeches
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.

Annual Meeting
2025 Annual Meeting of the HOD business session
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The AMA steps up its efforts to fix prior authorization

The House of Delegates moves to rein in the broken prior authorization process that endangers patient care and frustrates physicians.

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Fighting for Physicians
Bruce A. Scott, MD, at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the HOD
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AMA president: Doctors must turn discontent into decisive action

In a fiery address, outgoing AMA President Bruce A. Scott, MD, urged physicians to be unrelenting in their efforts to fix a broken U.S. health system. 

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Fighting for Physicians