You are here
Physician Payment/Delivery System Reform
Learn more about ACP's recommendations and actions to support internists regarding physician payment reform and delivery system reform.
- ACP Written Statement for the Record for the House Energy & Health Subcommittee Hearing on "MACRA and Alternative Payment Models" (8-Nov-17)
- ACP Letter to CMS Regarding PAMA and Preliminary Medicare Clinical Lab Fee Schedule Rates for CY 2018 (23-Oct-17)
- ACP Comment Letter to CMS Regarding CY 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (11-Sep-17)
- ACP Comment Letter to CMS Regarding MACRA/Quality Payment Program (QPP) Proposed Rule for CY 2018 (22-Aug-17)
- Joint Primary Care Letter to CMS Regarding MIPS Opt-in and Low-volume Threshold in QPP (21-Aug-17)
- Joint Letter to CMS re Repayment Mechanism for Track 1+ Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) (28-Jun-17)
- Comment Letter to CMS Regarding AAFP's Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule (15-Jun-17)
- ACP letter to PTAC regarding AAFP Advanced Primary Care Alternative Payment Model (APC-APM) (19-May-17)
- ACP comments re CMS Episode-Based Cost Measure Development for MACRA/QPP (24-Apr-17)
- ACP letter of support for S. 870, the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act (20-Apr-17)
- Joint Letter to CMS Requesting Delay of Reporting/Pricing Elements of PAMA (3-Apr-17)
- Joint letter from ACP and other clinicians, employers, hospitals, biopharmaceutical companies, pharmacists, patients, consumer groups and insurance providers urging the Trump administration to support value based care (25-Jan-17)
- Summary of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule for CY 2017 (13-Jan-17)
- ACP comment letter to CMS regarding MACRA final rule (19-Dec-16)
- Joint comment letter to CMS regarding Track 1 plus Medicare Shared Savings program ACOs in MACRA final rule (16-Dec-16)
- ACP Comment Letter to Senate Finance Committee on CHRONIC Care Act (15-Nov-16)
- ACP Comment Letter Regarding the CMS Proposed Rule on Advancing Care Coordination through Episode Payment Models (29-Sep-16)
- ACP Comment Letter Regarding the Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for CY 2017 (6-Sep-16)
- ACP Comments to CMS on the Hospital OPPS Proposed Rule (6-Sep-16)
- Joint Letter to CMS on RUC Refinement Panel (23-Aug-16)
- Summary of the Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for CY 2017 (5-Aug-16)
- ACP statement for the record to the Senate Finance Committee for the July 13 MACRA hearing (27-Jul-16)
- ACP Comments to CMS on Proposed Medicare Part B Payment Model (9-May-16)
- Joint Letter to CMS on Patient-Centered Medical Homes in MACRA (22-Apr-16)
- ACP's Written Testimony for the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health Hearing on MACRA: Examining Physician Efforts to Prepare for Medicare Payment Reforms (19-Apr-16)
- ACP Statement on the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Initiative (11-Apr-16)
- Joint Comment Letter to CMS on Proposed Rule on Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs Revised Benchmarking Methodology (25-Mar-16)
- ACP Comment Letter on CMS Draft Quality Measures Development Plan (1-Mar-16)
- ACP Comments to the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees on Stark Self-referral Law Improvements (3-Feb-16)
- ACP Comment Letter to CMS Regarding the Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule for CY 2016 (29-Dec-15)
- Summary of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule for CY 2016 (16-Dec-15)
- ACP Comments to CMS on the Medicare Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests Payment System Proposed Rule (23-Nov-15)
- ACP Comment Letter to CMS Regarding the MACRA Request for Information (17-Nov-15)
- ACP Comment Letter Regarding the Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for CY 2016 (8-Sep-15)
- Summary of the Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule for CY 2016 (13-Aug-15)
- Joint letter to CMS in support of complex advance care planning codes (12-May-15)
- ACP handout for internists on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), H.R. 2 (24-Apr-15)
- Crosswalk of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, H.R. 2 (21-Apr-15)
- ACP letter of congratulations to House/Senate leaders on final passage of H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (15-Apr-15)
- ACP letter to Senate leaders urging Senate passage of H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, after the recess (27-Mar-15)
- 21% Cut in Medicare Physician Payments Beginning April 1, 2015 (27-Mar-15)
- Joint letter to Senate leaders urging support for H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (26-Mar-15)
- ACP letter to Senate leaders urging support for H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (26-Mar-15)
- Letter from IM Subspecialty Groups to House Leadership in Support of the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015, HR 1470 (20-Mar-15)
- ACP letter of support to House leaders for the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015 (19-Mar-15)
- ACP sample tweets for advocates supporting SGR repeal (19-Mar-15)
- Response to CMS Innovation Center RFI on New Advanced Primary Care Payment Model (16-Mar-15)
- Sign-on Letter to Speaker Boehner Asking to Repeal and Replace the SGR Formula (16-Mar-15)
- MSSP comments and recommendations to CMS in response to proposed policy and payment changes (6-Feb-15)
- ACP Statement on HSS move away from fee-for-service and towards Medicare payments based on quality (27-Jan-15)
- ACP statement for the record: Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing on SGR repeal (20-Jan-15)
- Letter from the Alliance for Site-Neutral Payment Reform to Senate Leadership (16-Jan-15)
- Letter from the Alliance for Site-Neutral Payment Reform to House Leadership (16-Jan-15)
- ACP letter to Senate leaders outlining advocacy priorities for the 114th Congress (9-Jan-15)
- ACP letter to House leaders outlining advocacy priorities for the 114th Congress (9-Jan-15)
- ACP Comment Letter Regarding the Physician Fee Schedule 2015 Final Rule (23-Dec-14)
- Joint Letter to CMS Regarding Reimbursement for Advance Care Planning (23-Dec-14)
- ACP Comment Letter Regarding the Physician Fee Schedule 2015 Proposed Rule (29-Aug-14)
- Sign-on letter regarding timing of coding changes in the Proposed Rule for the 2015 Medicare Physician Payment Schedule (13-Aug-14)
- Summary of the Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule for CY 2015 (25-Jul-14)
- Coalition letter supporting extension of Medicaid pay parity for primary care services (10-Jun-14)
- ACP Letter to CMS Administrator Tavenner re: April 9, 2014 Release of Physician 2012 Medicare Claims Data (23-May-14)
- Sign-on letter regarding sustaining federal primary-care payment policy in Medicaid (21-May-14)
- ACP letter urging Senate Leadership to vote against House-passed SGR patch legislation (29-Mar-14)
- Joint letter from physician groups to House leadership expressing opposition to H.R. 4302, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (27-Mar-14)
- ACP letter to House leaders opposing H.R. 4302, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (27-Mar-14)
- ACP letter to Senate leaders opposing the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (27-Mar-14)
- ACP letter of support for the Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act, S. 2110 (18-Mar-14)
- Sign-on letter to House Leadership regarding support for H.R. 4015/S. 2000, The SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014 (5-Mar-14)
- Sign-on letter to Senate Leadership regarding support for H.R. 4015/S. 2000, The SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014 (5-Mar-14)
- ACP comprehensive crosswalk analysis of the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act (27-Feb-14)
- Frequently-Asked-Questions (FAQs) about the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act (25-Feb-14)
- ACP snapshot analysis of the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act (H.R. 4015/S. 2000) (24-Feb-14)
- ACP identifies top improvements over current law in the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act (21-Feb-14)
- Joint Internal Medicine/Subspecialty letter to House leaders in support of the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act (20-Feb-14)
- Sign-on letter to congratulate House and Senate negotiators on the introduction of HR 4015/S 2000, the "SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014" (11-Feb-14)
- ACP letter to Medicare Committees regarding PCMH incentives in SGR-repeal legislation (4-Feb-14)
- ACP comment letter regarding the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, and other revisions, for CY2014 (27-Jan-14)
- Crosswalk of the Finance-Ways & Means SGR-Repeal bill as reported out of the committees on Dec. 12 (12-Dec-13)
- Joint Internal Medicine Subspecialty letter to approve the bipartisan, bicameral SGR repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 2013 (10-Dec-13)
- Joint letter in support of the revised Senate Finance and House Ways & Means Committee's SGR reform proposal (10-Dec-13)
- ACP letter to Senate Finance and Ways & Means Committees regarding their revisions to the Oct 30 SGR-repeal framework (6-Dec-13)
- Coalition letter to Medicaid Committees in support of extending Medicaid Pay Parity (22-Nov-13)
- ACP letter to Senate Finance and House Ways & Means Committees in response to Oct. 30 release of SGR discussion draft (12-Nov-13)
- Sign On letter to CMS regarding problems within its Medicare Advantage Program (6-Nov-13)
- Statement of the American College of Physicians on the SGR Repeal/Medicare Physician Payment Reform Discussion Draft Released by the Senate Finance and Ways and Means Committees (31-Oct-13)
- Joint Letter to CMS on Complex Chronic Care Management (6-Sep-13)
- ACP letter to CMS, regarding the CY 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (6-Sep-13)
- Letter to CMS Regarding Proposal to Cap Payment in Physician Offices at Facility Rates (29-Aug-13)
- ACP Comments on the Accuracy in Medicare Physician Payments Act of 2013, H.R. 2545 (6-Aug-13)
- Coalition Letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee regarding Budget Neutrality (25-Jul-13)
- Crosswalk of Energy & Commerce July 18, 2013 Legislative Proposal with ACP's Policy on Physician Payment Reform and SGR Repeal (22-Jul-13)
- ACP letter to House Energy & Commerce Committee regarding their legislative proposal to repeal the SGR (19-Jul-13)
- ACP response letter to Energy & Commerce Committee June 28 SGR Legislative Draft Proposal (9-Jul-13)
- Letter of support for H.R. 1173, the Personalize Your Care Act of 2013 (27-Jun-13)
- Section-By-Section Crosswalk" May 28 Energy & Commerce discussion draft and ACP proposal (19-Jun-13)
- ACP response to May 28 Energy & Commerce legislative proposal to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate (10-Jun-13)
- ACP response to the Senate Finance Committee request for ideas on how to improve the Medicare physician fee schedule and fee for service system and repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate (31-May-13)
- Letter to Rep. Tom Price clarifying ACP's position on Medicare private contracting (15-May-13)
- ACP Testimony to Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health on Developing a Viable Medicare Physician Payment Policy (7-May-13)
- ACP Policy on Provider Based Billing (Apr-13)
- ACP response to the House Ways & Means and Energy & Commerce majority 2nd-iteration proposal on eliminating the SGR (17-Apr-13)
- Brief Summary of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act Final Rule (26-Feb-13)
- Bringing Medicare Reimbursements Into the 21st Century (25-Feb-13)
- Statement on The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (2-Jan-13)
- Letter to CMS about Physician Payment for Undervalued Evaluation and Management Services (28-Dec-12)
- American College of Physicians Urges House and Senate to 'Create Solution to Endless Cycle of Medical Physician Payment Cuts' (17-Dec-12)
- Joint Letter to CMS regarding Transitional Care Management Coding (3-Dec-12)
- Joint Letter to Senate Finance Committee asking them to transition Medicare away from the SGR (15-Oct-12)
- Statement on Physician Organization Efforts to Promote High Quality Care (24-July-12)
- Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act Objectives (8-May-12)
- Approaches to Address the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) (27-Apr-12)