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AMA model bills

View the most frequently used model state bills created for the Federation of Medicine and approved by the AMA Board of Trustees.

State Advocacy
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AMA urges participation in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

The AMA urges anyone who has unused, unwanted, and expired prescription medications to drop them off at one of the thousands of drop-off sites on April 28.

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April 5, 2018: National Advocacy Update

Controlled substance e-prescribing, new alternative payment models and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

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Amid an epidemic, these physicians are taking action

Doctors encourage non-opioid approaches to pain and safe disposal of unwanted meds, and change the approach to post-surgical prescribing.

Behavioral Health
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Physicians aim to shine light on why drugs cost so much

The AMA will seek to ban unjustified prescription-drug “price gouging” and let pharmacists tell patients when their co-pay exceeds a drug’s cash price.

Behavioral Health
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AMA expands advocacy efforts supporting drug price transparency

Physicians at the AMA's Interim Meeting adopted new policy to expand the scope of its federal, state advocacy efforts to increase transparency of drug pricing.

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Nov. 3, 2017: National Advocacy Update

IPAB repeal legislation; opioids emergency declaration, biosimilars educational materials and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

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Aug. 24, 2017: State Advocacy Update

Oregon vetoes psychologist prescribing bill and enacts Tobacco 21 legislation in the latest round of state and local health care advocacy.

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Aug. 24, 2017: Judicial Advocacy Update

Learn how the AMA advises in a PDMP case that unwarranted disclosure of PDMP data to law enforcement could compromise care.

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