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The AAMC leads national education organizations in filing amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States.

  • Aug. 1, 2025
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The AAMC released a statement on the Senate Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill.

  • Aug. 1, 2025

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The AAMC has developed a new resource illustrating how academic medicine plays a unique and pivotal role in the U.S. health care system. The providers and institutions that constitute the AAMC’s membership, including nearly 500 academic health systems and teaching hospitals and more than 150 medical schools, are critical to advancing academic medicine’s four missions.

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The AAMC expresses concern over new executive order making detrimental changes to how federal grants are reviewed, awarded, and terminated.

  • Aug. 8, 2025
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Washington Highlights

The White House issued an Aug. 7 executive order requiring a new political review processes for federal grants.

  • Aug. 8, 2025
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The Department of Education set negotiated rulemaking sessions to discuss changes to student loans and institutional accountability post-budget reconciliation.

  • Aug. 8, 2025
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The ASTP finalized policies in a new rule to improve interoperability of prior authorization, e-prescribing, and access to drug benefits information.

  • Aug. 8, 2025
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The CMS released the FY 2026 IPPS final rule implementing polices on hospital payment, GME, quality, and changes to a new mandatory episode payment model.

  • Aug. 8, 2025

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