Edited by the College's Washington, DC Governmental Affairs Division, the ACP Advocate is a bi-weekly, e-newsletter created to provide ACP members with news about public policy issues affecting internal medicine and patient care.
July 19, 2013
Health Care and the Immigration Debate; ACO and Referrals
In this issue: Health Care and the Debate on Immigration Policy; Internal Medicine Subspecialist's Concerned ACOs are Routing Away Their Patients; Impact of the Delay in one of the Affordable Care Act Provisions
June 28, 2013
New ACP Tool Offers New Way to Regulatory Changes and Deadlines
In this issue: New ACP Physician and Practice Timeline; Senate and House Solutions to the Medicare Payment Dilemma; Patient Protection in a Dispute Between Hospitals and Medicare; Taking a Look Back at the Supreme Court's Ruling on the Affordable Care Act
June 7, 2013
ACP Members Head to Capitol Hill for Leadership Day
In this issue: Highlights from ACP's Annual Leadership Day; This Year's Recipient of the Richard Neubauer Advocate for Internal Medicine Award; New Smoking Cessation Campaign from the CDC; Dramatic Slowing of the Rate of Increase in Health Care Spending
May 17, 2013
What ACP told Congress about Medicare Payments
In this issue: ACP Leaders Finds Reason for Optimism About Repeal of the SGR; Slowing of Medicare Cost Increases May Put Cost-Cutting Board on the Shelf; Government Fine-Tunes System for Expanding Coverage to the Uninsured
May 3, 2013
ACP’s New Leaders on Advocacy
In this issue: New ACP Leaders Target Expanding Medicaid and Replacing the SGR; President’s Call for Entitlement Cuts Raises Some Concern; ACP Calls Inaction by Congress on Gun Violence Unacceptable
April 4, 2013
A New Redesign for our Advocacy Website
In this issue: A New Website Design Puts Advocacy Information at Your Fingertips; New Program Promotes Specialists’ Involvement in Medical Home Practices; Electronic Records Aren’t Finding Favor Among Some Physicians
March 22, 2013
How Will the Sequester Affect Medicare Payments?
In this issue: Sequestration Cuts Will Bring Reduction in Medicare Reimbursements; Comission Recommends Transitioning From Fee-for-Service Physician Payments; Plan to Raise Medicaid Payments to Medicare Level Moves Ahead, but at Snail’s Pace
March 8, 2013
Updated Guide for Physicians on the Affordable Care Act
In this issue: Revised ACP Guide Reflects Changes to Affordable Care Act; GOP Congressmen Join Effort to Change Medicare Payment System; Federal Government Sets Insurance Standards for Core Benefits
February 22, 2013
ACP on the State of the Nation's Health Care
In this issue: ACP Puts Forth Two-Pronged Approach for Fixing U.S. Health Care Woes; Congress Gets New Bill to Repeal the Medicare Payment Formula; President's State of the Union Address Notes a Need for Entitlement Reforms
January 25, 2013
ACP Calls for Changes to GME; New Studies on EHRs and the PCMH
In this issue: ACP Urges Changes in Graduate Medical Education; New Study Looks at Why Electronic Health Records Fall Short on Cost Savings; Might Team-Based Medicine Eliminate the Primary Care Shortage?
January 11, 2013
Medicare Payments in 2013; What is Your State Doing About Medicaid Expansion?
In this issue: Physicians Escape Medicare Rate Cuts as Part of ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal; ACP Helps State Chapters Push to Expand the Reach of Medicaid; What Treatments Work Best?
ACP Policies and Recommendations
This library is a collection of ACP's Clinical Guidelines, Ethical Guidelines, Policy Statements, and copies of testimony and letters to government and non-government officials.
Previous Issues
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What's ahead on the fiscal cliff?
- December 21, 2012 -
The Latest on the Fiscal Cliff and Medicare
- December 7, 2012 -
The Election and Health Care Reform, also News on Payment Increases for 2013
- November 16, 2012 -
Are you ready to vote?
- November 2, 2012 -
What did the candidates say about health care?
- October 21, 2012 -
Medicaid Expansion; New Phase of EHR Project; ACP Candidates for Congress
- October 5, 2012