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Attributable to: Nitin S. Damle, MD, MS, MACP President, American College of Physicians (ACP)
November 3, 2016
The American College of Physicians (ACP) is pleased that the 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) includes several important initiatives to support high-value primary care. The policies in the rule more accurately recognize the work of primary care physicians and other cognitive specialties to accommodate the changing needs of Medicare beneficiaries. ACP applauds CMS for being responsive to the numerous policy recommendations from ACP that we submitted on the initial proposed rule.
The steps taken by CMS to support primary care, reduce barriers to chronic care management, improve access to behavioral health services, and prevention included the following:
In other rulemaking, CMS finalized other payment and regulatory changes supported by ACP. The recently released Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule for 2017 includes several policies strongly supported by ACP:
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