Delegates recommend steps to ease patients' burden of high prescription costs.
By Jane Cys , AMNews staff. Dec. 25, 2000. The 10 recommendations, which resulted from a 17-page Council on Medical Service report, are directed at several health industry segments. For example, the recommendations call on the AMA to educate physicians about free prescription drug programs and organizations that help patients and physicians use these programs. J. Edward Hill, MD, an AMA trustee, said the CMS report's information will help the AMA weigh in as federal lawmakers craft legislation targeted at lowering drug costs.