Resources
Use these materials to learn more about the flawed Medicare physician payment system. Download and print these resources to help guide your advocacy efforts.
Medicare Payment Issue Briefs
- The Need for Medicare Payment Reform (Download PDF)
- Medicare Updates Compared to Inflation (2001-2023) (Download PDF)
- Medicare Alternative Payment Models (Download PDF)
- Characteristics of a Rational Medicare Payment System (Download PDF)
- Medicare Basics: Medicare Physician Payment Adequacy: Budget Neutrality (Download PDF)
- Medicare Basics: Merit-based Incentive Payment Systems (MIPS) (Download PDF)
- Medicare Basics: The Medicare Economic Index (Download PDF)
- Medicare Basics: Advancing Value-Based Care with Alternative Payment Models (Download PDF)
- Medicare Basics: Transitioning to Value-Based Care: Clinical Data Registries (Download PDF)
- Medicare Basics: MIPS Data Problems (Download PDF)
- MIPS: Problems and Solutions (Download PDF)
Medicare Payment Graphics
- Medicare Provider Updates for 2024 Chart (Download PDF/Download JPEG)
- Medicare Updates Compared to Inflation in Practice Costs 2001-2024 Chart (Download PDF/Download JPEG)
- Key Measures of Practice Expense in the Medicare Economic Index Chart (Download PDF/Download JPEG)
- Medicare Spending Per Enrollee Chart (Download PDF/Download JPEG)
- Real (inflation-adjusted) Medicare Physician Spending Per Enrollee Chart (Download PDF/Download JPEG)
Legislation and Advocacy Correspondence
- Bipartisan Dear Colleague Letter (February 2024) Cosigned by 32 Members of Congress to Senate Leadership in Support of Reversing the 2024 Medicare Physician Payment Cuts (Download PDF)
- Broad Stakeholder Letter (January 2024) Letter of Support for Reversing the 2024 Medicare Physician Payment Cuts (Download PDF)
- Bipartisan Dear Colleague Letter (December 2023) Cosigned by 194 Members of Congress to House and Senate Leadership in Support of MACRA Reforms (Download PDF)
- AMA Letter of Support (December 2023) for H.R. 6683, the Preserving Seniors' Access to Physicians Act (Download PDF)
- Legislative Text: H.R. 2474, the Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act (Download PDF)
- Legislative Text: H.R. 6683, the Preserving Seniors' Access to Physicians Act (Download PDF)
- Bipartisan Dear Colleague Letter (June 2023) Cosigned by 100 Members of Congress to House Leadership in Support of MACRA Reforms (Download PDF)
- Broad Stakeholder Letter (May 2023) Letter of Support for H.R. 2474, the Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act (Download PDF)
- AMA Federation Letter (April 2023) of Support for H.R. 2474, the Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act (Download PDF)
Promotional Materials
- Physician Reception Area Flier (Download PDF)
- Video: The Long Road to Reform the Medicare Physician Payment System