1. Our AMA encourages public and private health insurers to develop and offer a variety of value-based contracting options so that physician practices can select payment models that best suit their delivery of care.

2. Our AMA encourages the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure that Medicare Alternative Payment Models (APMs) do not require physicians to assume responsibility for costs they cannot control because such a requirement could potentially create an ethical conflict of interest.

3. Our AMA will continue to actively advocate to CMS that physicians in all specialties and modes of practice must have at least one Medicare APM in which they can feasibly participate.

4. Our AMA will advocate to CMS that any review process of alternative payment models proposed by stakeholders be completed in a timely manner, include an administratively simple appeals process and access to an ombudsman.

Policy Timeline

CMS Rep. 1, I-15