The American Medical Association Point of View at the WHCC

Question: So what is the perspective of the American Medical Association on the critical issues confronting health care today, such as transparency, pay for performance, health information technology, value-based purchasing, chronic care enhancements, employer based reforms, consumer cost sharing, patient accountability, bundling payments, single payer systems, European models of care, cost effectiveness studies, predictive modeling, disease management or the patient centered medical home?

Answer: We are opposed to Medicare’s planned 10% reduction in physician reimbursement.