2025 Advocacy Priorities
Where We Stand
The »Æ¹ÏµÎµÎapp advocates to ensure that payers meet the needs of both patients and physicians. We support reforms that would better align physician payments with high-quality patient care. We support reducing unnecessary administrative burdens that take physicians away from patient care.
Policies
- Reforming Physician Payments to Achieve Greater Equity and Value in Health Care: A Position Paper of the »Æ¹ÏµÎµÎapp 6/2022
- Beyond the Referral: Principles of Effective, Ongoing Primary and Specialty Care Collaboration 4/2022
- Beyond the Referral: Principles of Effective, Ongoing Primary and Specialty Care Collaboration 4/29/2022
- Financial Profit in Medicine 10/2021
- 1/2020
- Addressing the Increasing Burden of Health Insurance Cost Sharing 2016
- Assessing the Patient Care Implications of "Concierge" and Other Direct Patient Contracting Practices 11/2015
- Retail Health Clinics 10/2015
Latest Advocacy Efforts​
- LetterACP Support Letter to Congressional Appropriators for FY2025 Report Language to Help Avoid Unnecessary Medicare Physician Cuts Due to Utilization Overestimates 10/25/2024
- TestimonyACP Statement to House Ways and Means Committee Health Subcommittee Hearing on the Collapse of Private Practice: Examining the Challenges Facing Independent Medicine 5/23/2024
- LetterACP Comments on 2025 Physician Fee Schedule, Medicare Shared Savings Program, and Quality Payment Program Proposed Rule 9/6/2024
- LetterSign-On Letter Regarding UHC's GI Endoscopy Prior Authorization Program 5/8/2023
- LetterJoint Letter to Cigna Regarding Modifier 25 Policy 4/18/2023
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