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May 23, 2025
Advocacy in Action
ACP Connects With Leaders Across the Political Spectrum During Leadership Day 2025
This year's advocacy efforts focused on Medicare payment reform, protecting Medicaid coverage and federal health program funding.
Oregon ACP Chapter Immediate-Past Governor Takes Home 2025 Richard Neubauer Advocate for Internal Medicine Award
Dr. Jenny R. Silberger has long been an advocate in internal medicine on issues including gender equity, parenting and women's health.
Regulatory News and Perspective
ACP Provides Recommendations to Reduce Burden and Streamline Administrative Tasks
In response to a request for information to address regulatory and administrative burdens, ACP calls for a structured approach that involves physicians in the process.
In Case You Missed It
Action Alert: Urge Congress to Oppose Changes to Medicaid and Student Loans, and Fix Physician Pay
ACP is calling on you to contact your members of Congress to ask them to oppose legislation that changes Medicaid and student loans, and fails to fix Medicare physician payments.
Visit ACP's Legislative Action Center to learn more and take action. A sample email message is provided for you that includes space for you to personalize the letter. Join the Advocates for Internal Medicine network to receive ACP's action alerts directly and advocate for the interests of internal medicine in Washington.
ACP Announces Quality Agenda for Internal Medicine
A central component of ACP's mission is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine. To focus ACP's efforts, an initiative is near completion to identify clinical topics of core importance to internal medicine practice. ACP believes that such national efforts to improve health care quality must address issues that represent most clinical encounters.
Our efforts encompass the many areas that ACP develops for our internal medicine community such as evidence-based clinical guidelines and performance measures; educational resources and Quality Improvement support programs; advocacy efforts to promote the issues impacting internal medicine physicians and health care; and original research and articles essential to internal medicine practice published in ACP's flagship peer-reviewed journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
Visit our dedicated page online for more information about our resources.
Advocacy News
ACP Letter of Support for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
ACP letter to Rep. Thompson, chairman, House Committee on Agriculture, expressing support for comments from the Chairman that he will not advance legislation that cuts food assistance for needy families.
ACP Letter Expressing Concern About Changes to Federal Student Loans and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program in Reconciliation Package
ACP letter to Chairman Walberg and Ranking Member Scott expressing concern that policy changes to student loans and the PSLF could result in fewer students going to medical school, ultimately worsening the physician shortage in the United States.
ACP Statement to the House Energy and Commerce Committee Regarding Markup of Budget Reconciliation
Statement from ACP urging the committee to carefully consider the long-term implications of the proposed legislative text in the Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, which would substantially change the Medicaid program and limit health care access for millions of Americans.
ACP Letter to House Ways and Means Committee Regarding Markup of Budget Reconciliation
ACP letter raising concerns about the committee's efforts to eliminate energy tax credits and other incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions created in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Medical Society Letter Opposing Cuts to Medicaid
Joint letter to congressional leaders to express concerns with the proposed changes to the Medicaid program currently being considered by Congress that would threaten patient care.
ACP letter to Senator Marshall in support of the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act
ACP letter to Sen. Marshall in support of S. 1640, which would provide a much-needed increase in payment to physician services under Medicare.
ACP Comment Letter to Department of Education on Income Driven Repayment Plans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness
ACP letter urging the Department of Education to include an internal medicine physician negotiator on the rulemaking committee to better understand the difficult road that physicians face to pay off their medical education debt.
ACP Comment Letter on Section 232 National Security Investigation of Imports of Pharmaceuticals and Pharmaceutical Ingredients
ACP letter responding to the Department of Commerce's Notice of Request for Public Comments, urging the Department to consider the public health impacts of prescription drug trade policy and to prioritize access to essential treatments.
Joint Letter to Congressional Appropriators Supporting Robust Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Funding for FY2026
Joint letter in support of robust funding for the EPA, which plays a necessary role in improving health outcomes through delivering clean air and healthy environments.
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