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Surprise billing regulation is a surprise gift to insurance industry

AMA calls Biden Administration’s interim final rule on surprise billing an undeserved gift to insurance industry that will reduce health care options for patients.

Press Releases
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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of Sept. 27, 2021

In the news: COVID-19 booster rollout, lead levels in children’s blood, health insurance competition, COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant people, surprise medical bills.

Publications & Newsletters
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Don’t skew surprise-billing regulations in health plans’ favor

Calculating accurate market rates for physician services is key to fair dispute resolution under the No Surprises Act. Learn more with the AMA.

Access to Care
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AMA publishes new study monitoring competition in U.S. health insurance markets

Twentieth edition of AMA study shows continued lack of competition.

Press Releases
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Oct. 16, 2020: Advocacy spotlight on Competition declined in majority of health insurance markets where it is most scarce

Competition declined in majority of health insurance markets where it is most scarce in the latest Advocacy Update Spotlight.

Advocacy Update
Unbalanced scale
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Is your town one of the least competitive health insurance markets?

As health insurance companies consolidate, market competition falls, leaving consumers with higher premiums and fewer choices and providers with lower payment.

Access to Care
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Competition shrank in majority of health insurance markets where it is scarcest

New AMA study finds increasingly limited health insurance options for patients in highly concentrated markets. 

Press Releases
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CVS-Aetna merger

The AMA aims to protect patients and physicians by actively opposing anticompetitive health insurer mergers.

Access to Care
10 states with largest decrease in competition levels
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10 states where health insurance competition has fallen the most

These states are part of a trend that increasingly puts patients and physicians at a disadvantage with large health plans.

Access to Care