Resources
Use these materials to learn more about the flawed Medicare physician payment system. Download, print and share these resources to help guide your advocacy efforts.
Medicare Payment Issue Briefs
- The Need for Medicare Payment Reform (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)
- Summary of 2022 Quality Payment Program (QPP) Experience Report Key Findings (Download PDF)
- How Data-driven Performance Systems (DPPS) Would Improve MIPS (Download PDF)
- DPPS: Solving the Problems with the MIPS (Download PDF)
- Eight Reasons the U.S. Needs to Fix the Medicare Physician Payment System (Download PDF)
- 2025 Medicare Physician Payment Schedule (PFS) and QPP Final Rule Summary (Download PDF)
Medicare Payment Graphics
- Medicare Provider Updates for 2025 Chart (Download PDF/Download JPEG)
- Medicare Physician Updates Compared to Inflation in Practice Costs 2001-2024 Chart (Download PDF/Download JPEG)
- Medicare Physician and Hospital 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)
- Medicare Conversion Factor 2020-2025 Chart (Download PDF/Download JPEG)
Legislation and Advocacy Correspondence
- Bipartisan Dear Colleague Letter (November 2024) Cosigned by 41 Senators to House and Senate Leadership in Support of Medicare Physician Payment Reform (Download PDF)
- Bipartisan Dear Colleague Letter (November 2024) to House and Senate Leadership in Support of Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Reform (Download PDF)
- AMA Federation Letter (November 2024) of Support for H.R. 10073, the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act (Download PDF)
- Bipartisan Dear Colleague Letter (October 2024) Cosigned by 233 Members of Congress to House Leadership in Support of Medicare Physician Payment Reform (Download PDF)
- September 2024 Coalition Letter (Download PDF)
- AMA Comment Letter (September 2024) Letter in Response to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ 2025 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Download PDF)
- Broad Stakeholder Letter (July 2024) Letter of Support for Medicare Physician Payment System Policy Reforms (Download PDF)
- 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)
- State Societies: Interested in a co-branded Physician Reception Area Flier? Please contact Joe Mayer (joe.mayer@ama-assn.org).
- Medicare Payment Reform: What Patients Need to Know (Download PDF)
- Video: The Long Road to Reform the Medicare Physician Payment System
- Social Media Toolkit (Download PDF)