The Council on Medical Service studies and evaluates the social and economic aspects of healthcare; and, on behalf of the public and the profession, recommends relevant policy changes to improve healthcare delivery in a changing socioeconomic environment.
Consumer-driven healthcare
To advance policies that emphasize patient choice and control of their healthcare and their health insurance.
Delivery reform
To advocate policies on emerging delivery systems that protect and foster the patient/physician relationship.
Drug coverage & spending
To address high and escalating prescription drug prices and costs.
Employee benefits
To address employee benefits unrelated to health insurance benefits.
Healthcare costs & value
To advance policies to address healthcare costs and promote value in healthcare spending.
Healthcare coverage & choice
To establish and refine the AMA proposal for covering the uninsured and expanding health insurance coverage and choice.
Health insurance
To establish policy that addresses and responds to health insurer actions interfering with the patient/physician relationship and impacting the practice of medicine.
Hospitals & hospital based services
To address hospital actions impacting patients and physicians, including consolidation, the site-of-service differential, and sole community hospitals.
Medicare & Medicaid
To anticipate and respond to Medicare and Medicaid program changes impacting patients and physicians.
Physician-led team-based care
To provide policy options for physician-led team-based care on the topics of payment and insurance coverage, as wells as delivery, supervision, and coordination of care.
Physician payment reform
To contribute to the policy options for reforming physician payment.
Telehealth
To advance policies that incorporate and integrate telemedicine and digital health into physician practices.
Sunset reviews
2026
- Council on Medical Service Sunset Review of 2016 House Policies (PDF) CMS Report 1-A-26
2025
- Council on Medical Service Sunset Review of 2015 House Policies (PDF) CMS Report 1-A-25
2024
- Council on Medical Service Sunset Review of 2014 House Policies (PDF) CMS Report 1-A-24
2023
- Council on Medical Service Sunset Review of 2013 House Policies (PDF) CMS Report 01-A-23
2022
- Council on Medical Service Sunset Review of 2012 House Policies (PDF) CMS Report 01-A-22
2021
- CMS Sunset Review of 2011 House Policies (PDF) CMS Report 01-JUN-21
2020
- Council on Medical Service sunset review (PDF) CMS Report 1-S-20
