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

Legislation and Advocacy Correspondence

  • Signed Letter (March 2025) of Support for the House of Representatives to Add H.R. 879 to the Full Year CR Before the House Votes (Download PDF)
  • AMA Federation Letter (February 2025) of Support for H.R. 879, the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act (Download PDF)
  • H.R. 879, the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act (Download PDF)
  • 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
  • Video: Repeated Medicare Pay Cuts Leave Patients Without Access to Care (30 seconds)
  • Video: Repeated Medicare Pay Cuts Leave Patients Without Access to Care (90 seconds)
  • Social Media Toolkit (Download PDF)