Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America. Members.

The beginning of the transition to a new Medicare payment system will culmin ate nearly a decade of efforts to reform Medicare’s physician payment system. From the start, the AMA has played a leadership role. The AMA has viewed Medicare adoption of a payment schedule based upon a Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) as a means of preserving fee-for-service as a viable Medicare option, and has used its support for such a system to defeat proposals for physician DRGs or wide spread capitation for Medicare, as well as to fend off even more severe pro posed budget cuts than those actually enacted since 1984.