Improving Medicare
2025 Advocacy Priorities
Where We Stand
The American College of Physicians advocates to ensure that Medicare meets the needs of internal medicine physicians and their patients. We support the goal of aligning physician payments with the efficient delivery of high-quality care to patients. We support improvements that would do away with unnecessary administrative burdens that divert physicians away from patient care. For the transition to value-based payments to work, performance measures used for payment or public accountability must be evidence-based, clinically relevant, and appropriate; and internal medicine physicians must be given ample opportunity to participate in a range of diverse alternative payment models that can accommodate a wide range of specialties, practice sizes, and unique patient populations.
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Urge Congress to Support the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act
Latest Advocacy Efforts
- TestimonyACP Statement to the Senate Finance Committee on the Rising Cost of Care: Considering Meaningful Solutions for All Americans 11/19/2025
- StatementACP's Statement to House W&M Health Subcommittee on Modernizing Care Coordination to Prevent and Treat Chronic Disease 11/19/2025
- Statement ACP Says 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Changes Will Better Support Primary and Comprehensive Care 11/5/2025
- LetterACP Letter to NAIC on Evaluation/Management Downcoding 10/27/2025
- LetterACP Comments on 2026 Physician Fee Schedule, Medicare Shared Savings Program, and Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program Proposed Rule 9/12/2025
- StatementACP Statement for the Record- Senate Finance Committee Hearing on the President’s 2026 Health Care Agenda 9/4/2025
- SummaryACP Summary of 2026 Physician Fee Schedule, Medicare Shared Savings Program, and Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program Proposed Rule 8/12/2025
- LetterACP Feedback on the WISeR Model 7/25/2025
- LetterACP Letter to the NGA re: The Vital Role of ACIP in Immunization Coverage and State Health Cost Savings 7/17/2025
- LetterACP Letter to the NAIC re: The Critical Role of ACIP and the Link Between Immunization Coverage and State Health 7/17/2025
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