Topic in Focus: Telehealth Adoption

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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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Telehealth: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that have proposed strategies to incorporate and integrate telemedicine and digital health into physician practices.

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2025 Interim Meeting Reference Committee
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Boost health AI training across medical education continuum

The AMA will work to get medical students and physicians the health AI training they need. Delegates also took actions to make tech work for doctors.

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John Whyte, MD, at the 2025 AMA Interim Meeting
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New AMA CEO outlines bold vision to shape health care’s future

John Whyte, MD, MPH, told delegates that it is physicians who will drive progress to meet the needs of patients for generations to come. 

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AMA President Bobby Mukkamala, MD, speech at 2025 AMA Interim Meeting (lapel pin)
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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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Nov. 14, 2025: National Advocacy Update

Unpaid Medicare telehealth claims status remains uncertain, and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

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Physician Practice Benchmark Survey

Download PDFs of the latest findings about shifts in medical practice ownership, physician practice structure and physician payment methods.

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Nov. 7, 2025: National Advocacy Update

Medicare telehealth policies advance in 2026 final rule and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

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AMA comments on 2026 Medicare Fee Schedule

Despite a one-time 2.5 percent update, the AMA warns of unintended consequences for patients and physicians. 

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