An AMA membership means you are...

  • Working to extinguish physician burnout
  • Leading the charge on Medicare payment reform
  • Tackling the overused prior authorization process
  • Supporting physician-led team-based care
  • #FightingForDocs
Join the AMA Today
Illustration of three physicians
Clear Search
AMA Update for March 14, 2025: Deciding to close your medical practice and the dire consequences of Medicare cuts
·
14 Min Read

Deciding to close your medical practice and the dire consequences of Medicare cuts

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the dire consequences of Medicare cuts and private practice.

series
Private Practices
AMA Update
·
14 Min Read

Deciding to close your medical practice and the dire consequences of Medicare cuts [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the dire consequences of Medicare cuts and private practice.

series
Private Practices
AMA Update Podcast
·
5 Min Read

Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of March 10, 2025

In the news: AMA and other physician organizations speak out on Medicare pay cuts, new findings on physicians’ EHR use during paid time off and more.

Publications & Newsletters
·
3 Min Read

MedPAC gives Congress a roadmap to Medicare reform

MedPac recommended that Congress link physician payment updates to medical inflation.

Press Releases
Man leans in front of barn
·
8 Min Read

Medicare pay cuts: What they mean for rural America

Patients in rural areas are already at higher risk for poor health outcomes. Squeezing the physician practices that care for them is not the answer.

series
Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians
Bustling hospital corridor
·
6 Min Read

Medicare pay cuts: How they endanger physician practices

Physician practices are businesses too. Lower pay over two decades increasingly leaves no option other than cut back staff and—in some cases—close.

series
Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians
Fix Medicare now
·
4 Min Read

Spending proposal means devastating 5th year of Medicare pay cuts

Congress is on the verge of abandoning patients and physicians by adopting a short-term funding deal that fails to address broken Medicare pay system.

series
Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians
·
1 Min Read

Congress abandons Medicare patients and their physicians

Congress’s new spending package locks in a devastating fifth consecutive year of Medicare cuts, jeopardizing access to care for 66 million Medicare patients.

Press Releases
·
3 Min Read

March 7, 2025: Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update

GOP Doc Caucus endorses H.R. 879, the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act and more in the latest Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update