Filibusters & Fine Print

The public policy legislative team is back to discuss Congress’s return to session and its abrupt departure. Expect sidebar conversations discussing astrology, the use of therapy-speech, and why members of Congress...

Medicaid Managed Care State Directed Payments Rule Our trilogy closes where a lot of state Medicaid financing quietly lives: state directed payments. CMS wants to swap the current commercial-rate benchmark for a...

CY2027 OPPS/ASC Proposed Rule The sequel nobody asked for but everybody needs to understand: CMS wants to slash 340B drug payments by a third, speed up an old remedy clawback, and keep pushing more procedures out of...

CY2027 Physician Fee Schedule Every summer, CMS drops a rule that decides how much your practice gets paid—and this year's chapter has a twist nobody wanted: The conversion factor is falling even though the statutory...

AMGA's public policy team runs through Capitol Hill happenings as rising healthcare costs and consolidation draw more attention from Congress and the Trump Administration. This episode covers current financial pressures...

Lauren and Darryl unpack one of the more consequential conversations AMGA has had in recent memory: CMMI Director Abe Sutton's meeting with AMGA's Board of Directors. Darryl breaks down Sutton's priorities — a push for...

Lauren and Darryl are co-piloting this week’s Filibusters and Fine Print , where they discuss Congress’s continued focus on healthcare affordability and the likelihood of a major healthcare payment stability package...

Recorded live at AMGA's Annual Conference in Las Vegas, the Filibusters & Fine Print team breaks down the biggest challenges facing medical groups today — and what AMGA is doing about them. The discussion covers the...

In this special bonus episode of Filibusters & Fine Print , recorded live at AMGA's 2026 Annual Conference, Chet Speed is joined by the Public Policy team to share their five biggest takeaways from the week, from...

Affordability reform is coming but will Congress support positive policy reforms or undermine it? In this episode, we examine the latest congressional hearing on provider-driven health care costs through an AMGA lens...

The AMGA Public Policy Team unpacks the growing focus in Washington, DC on combating waste, fraud, and abuse in federal healthcare programs. The discussion explores recent actions from the Trump Administration, ongoing...

The clinician shortage is hardly easy as pie and in this week's episode, the AMGA policy team unpacks why fixing it is even harder than it looks. The conversation connects two federal issues: the House Ways and Means...

In this week’s episode, the AMGA policy team break down our recently sent letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and share what Dr. Oz said during Health Care Value Week. The conversation covers the real cost of...

The Trump Administration and Congress are interested in deploying artificial intelligence to improve health care. But what does that mean for providers and patients? The AMGA team turns the podcast over to Claudi.ai to...

Congress is concerned about affordability in healthcare and is looking at how administrative and regulatory complexity is contributing to higher costs. The AMGA team discussed two recent hearings on how payment...