Essay #20

AMA, American Medical Association

a.) The AMA targets Congress, and, more specifically, Medicare.

b.) The AMA is made up of primarily physicians and medical students, whom will, quite frequently, encounter Medicare patients or policies in practice. Since Medicare policies tend to set standards for other insurance payers, the AMA wants to have some influence over how Medicare is run.

c.) The constituents of the AMA include doctors and medical practice officers. Such members have created a set of ethics, rules, policies, and procedures to standardize terminology. These "Current Procedural Codes" are one of the primary ways that all medical and insurance forms are filled out. Since nearly all medical procedures are billed to insurers, namely Medicare, the AMA wants to be able to effectively communicate with insurance companies to ensure that their constituency gets paid.

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(1999_2)National interest groups often target national-level policymaking institutions to achieve their policy objectives.

Select one of the following national interest groups.
- AARP
- AMA (Medical Association
- NAACP
- NAM (national assoc. of Manufacturers)

For the group you selected do each of the following.
- a identify one major national-level policymaking institution that this group targets.
- b describe one resource or characteristic of the group you have chosen and explain how it influences the choice of the target you have identified in (a)
- c describe another resource or characteristic of the group you have chosen and explain how it influences the choice of the target you have identified in (a).