WASHINGTON - Feb. 15, 2012 - U.S. Representative Allyson Schwartz was honored with the American Medical Association’s (AMA) top government service award, the Dr. Nathan Davis Award. Rep. Schwartz has represented the 13th District of Pennsylvania in Congress for four terms and currently serves on the House Budget Committee. She received the award last evening in Washington, D.C. as part of the AMA’s National Advocacy Conference.

“Rep. Schwartz has played a vital role in addressing some of health care’s toughest issues,” said AMA Chairman Robert Wah, M.D. “She has been able to bring together her colleagues on both sides of the aisle to discuss a permanent solution to the Medicare physician payment formula that will help millions of seniors and military families maintain access to health care.”

Rep. Schwartz is one of six honorees chosen this year to receive the Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service. The award, named after the founder of the AMA, recognizes elected...