2026 Advocacy Priorities
ACP’s advocacy priorities seek to promote policy reforms on the federal level through legislative, regulatory, and executive actions that benefit the overall health and well-being of patients, physicians, and the practice of internal medicine.
Protecting Patient Access to Immunizations
Support policies that would bolster evidence-based science by preserving coverage, increasing uptake, and restoring research for safe and effective immunizations.
Ensuring Patient Affordability and Access to Health Care
Make health care more affordable by extending enhanced health insurance premium tax credits, preserving access to telehealth services, and lowering patient cost-sharing for primary care and preventive health care services.
Strengthening the Internal Medicine Physician Workforce
All patients should have access to a physician who can deliver primary, whole-person, comprehensive, and longitudinal care. Congress should invest in federal programs that support and expand the internal medicine and primary care physician workforce.
Improving Payment for Internal Medicine Physicians
Improve patients’ access to care by ensuring fair and appropriate physician compensation, including annual inflationary adjustments. Modernize laws requiring the implementation of budget neutral payment cuts in the physician fee schedule (PFS); and allow physicians to waive patient cost sharing associated with physician services in Medicare.