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AMA Advocacy Impact Report: June 2026 cover (Index)
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AMA Advocacy Impact Report

Learn how the AMA is leading national initiatives to build a health system that is more effective, sustainable and centered on patients. Download the PDF updates of the AMA's impact. 

Access to Care
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What is hospital care at home?

Hospital care at home enables patients to receive acute-level care for conditions requiring high-level monitoring in the comfort of their homes, rather than in hospitals.

Digital
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A digital medicine model that is closing care gaps in BP control

Ochsner Health’s digital hypertension program helps patients manage hypertension, reduces acute care use and advances value-based care.

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Prevention & Wellness
Health System Spotlight
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Medicare patients get virtual access to diabetes prevention

Move included in federal budget deal gets rid of barriers to lifestyle-change programs for older-adult patients, half of whom have prediabetes.

Prevention & Wellness
AMA in Action: Supporting telehealth
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Advocacy in action: Supporting telehealth

Download issue brief, report and model legislation PDFs. Telehealth is a vital way to deliver high-quality care. The AMA is fighting to permanently remove restrictions on telehealth coverage and payment. 

Digital
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Medicare telehealth coverage renewed for two years

The extension is one of eight big wins that happened because the AMA fought for them. Now the AMA’s pushing for permanent change.

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Digital
Fighting for Physicians
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8 wins for doctors, patients in latest federal budget deal

On telehealth, value-based care, diabetes prevention, doctor burnout and more, members of Congress have worked to find common ground.  

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Federal Advocacy
Fighting for Physicians
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AMA STEPS Forward®: Digital health solutions

The AMA STEPS Forward® program offers proven approaches on how to implement digital health and telehealth solutions and reduce technology-associated administrative burdens.

AMA STEPS Forward®
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How telehealth drives care improvement and saves money

With current waiver deadline approaching, the AMA details the case for letting patients access this vital care modality.  

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Digital
Fighting for Physicians