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.
Policies
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Urge Congress to Support the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act
Act NowLatest Advocacy Efforts
- LetterACP’s Letter of Support for the Preserving Patient Access to Accountable Care Act 3/31/2025
- LetterACP Joint Alliance for Value-Based Patient Care Letter to MedPAC 3/21/2025
- StatementInternal Medicine Physicians Disappointed House Neglects Medicare Patients and Physicians 3/13/2025
- LetterMedicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act Sign-on Letter 2/28/2025
- StatementACP Statement to House WM Health Subcommittee on Modernizing American Health Care: Creating Healthy Options and Better Incentives for Patients 2/11/2025
- LetterACP Letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary 2/18/2025
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