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Medical Group Advocacy Center

Welcome to AMGA’s Advocacy Center! Please use this webpage as a resource for your medical group advocacy efforts.

AMGA's Healthcare Reform Principles

Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011

• H.R. 1209
• Health Provisions in Year-End Bill

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, H.R. 1

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Key Health Provisions

Contact Your Member of Congress

• Contact Your Representative
• Contact Your Senator

Constituent Letters

• High-Performing Health Systems SGR Constituent Letter – February 2013
• Preserving Advanced Diagnostic Services Letter
• SGR Constituent Letter - February 2012

Letters to Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction

• SGR Reform Proposal
• Request to Perfect ACO Provisions

Letters From Public Officials

• HHS Prescription Drug Shortage - January 2012

Letters to Public Officials

• AMGA Response to Draft SGR Legislation
• AMGA Comments to Senate Finance Committee on SGR Reform
• AMGA Comments to Joint House Committee Proposals for Repeal and Reform of SGR - Second Iteration
• AMGA Comments to Joint House Committee Proposals for Repeal and Reform of SGR
• Preserving the Ability of Group Practices to Provide Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Services
• SGR Letter to Conferees
• Letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Drug Shortages
• AMGA Template 2011 Letter to Congress: Long-Term SGR Fix
• AMGA Letter to Donald Berwick, MD, CMS Administrator, on Accountable Care Organization Proposals, May 11, 2011
• House Letter on SGR, June 15, 2010
• Senate Letter on SGR, June 15, 2010
• Letter to Congress, SGR Cut, June 1, 2010
• AMGA SGR Template Letter
• AMGA Opposition to Medicare "buy-in" Letter
• AMGA Letter of Support on HR 3961
• AMGA Letter to Speaker Pelosi on House Health Care Reform Bill
• PGP Letter to Baucus on Accountable Care Organizations
• AMGA Letter to Representative Braley on Weiner-Braley Amendment
• AMGA e-Rx Letter to CMS Acting Administrator Kerry Weems
• AMGA Letter to Washington State Governor Gregoire, "About that Health Care Crisis"

AMGA Congressional Letters to Federal Agencies

Past AMGA Letters to Federal Agencies

Bipartisan Healthcare Summit: The President's Proposal, February 22, 2010

Senate and House Health Care Reform Legislation Side by Side Comparison Chart

• AMGA Health Care Reform Timeline
• House and Senate Side by Side Summary

Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act

• The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
• MIPPA Overview

Legislative Voices in the Group Practice Journal

• How Do We Fix Our Broken Health Care System by Kent Conrad
• It’s Time to Fix Health Care by Ron Wyden and Bob Bennett
• Baucus letter in AMGA GPJ

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