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Dec. 2, 2022: State Advocacy Update

California district attorney announces settlement in Truth in Advertising case and more in the latest State Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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Bipartisan House group seeks Medicare pay fixes. AMA delivers.

Learn how the AMA is challenging Congress to work on systemic reforms and make Medicare work better for patients and physicians.

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Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians
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8 MIN READ

Health care organizations urge COVID & flu vaccination and treatment

AMA joins effort to remind the public of the importance of vaccinations and early treatment.

Press Releases
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AMA offers new payment concept to reward high-value specialty care

To help inform a new government strategy, AMA offers an APM approach that primary care and specialist physicians can use to improve outcomes.

Payment & Delivery Models
Bruce Scott, MD, and Lisa Egbert, MD, HOD speakers at 2022 Interim
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ICYMI: 10 stories to read from the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting

The AMA House of Delegates leads the charge to protect reproductive health care, stop climate change, end the overdose epidemic, and prevent gun violence.

Interim Meeting
Delegates at the 2022 Interim Meeting
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Highlights from the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting

Catch up with the news and key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting, which ran Nov. 12–15.

Interim Meeting
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Bipartisan support in Congress for extending 5% APM incentives

The alternative payment model (APM) incentives save Medicare money and improve care, yet will end this year if Congress fails to act. Learn more.

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Payment & Delivery Models
Fighting for Physicians
Jack Resneck Jr., MD, at the 2022 Interim Meeting
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Physicians must be empowered to put patients first: AMA president

Obstacles to care emerge from prior auth, Medicare cuts and politicized exam rooms. President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, details how AMA has doctors’ backs.

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Jack Resneck Jr., MD, address at the 2022 Interim Meeting of the HOD

In an address to the AMA House of Delegates at the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting, Jack Resneck Jr., MD, discusses what unites physicians. Access the recording and transcript of the speech.

Speeches