2025 Advocacy Priorities
Where We Stand
The American College of Physicians advocates to ensure that payers meet the needs of both patients and physicians. We support reforms that would better align physician payments with high-quality patient care. We support reducing unnecessary administrative burdens that take physicians away from patient care.
Policies
- Reforming Physician Payments to Achieve Greater Equity and Value in Health Care: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians 6/2022
- Beyond the Referral: Principles of Effective, Ongoing Primary and Specialty Care Collaboration 4/2022
- Beyond the Referral: Principles of Effective, Ongoing Primary and Specialty Care Collaboration 4/29/2022
- Financial Profit in Medicine 10/2021
- Envisioning a Better U.S. Health Care System for All: Health Care Delivery and Payment System Reforms 1/2020
- Addressing the Increasing Burden of Health Insurance Cost Sharing 2016
- Assessing the Patient Care Implications of "Concierge" and Other Direct Patient Contracting Practices 11/2015
- Retail Health Clinics 10/2015
Latest Advocacy Efforts
- LetterACP Support Letter to Congressional Appropriators for FY2025 Report Language to Help Avoid Unnecessary Medicare Physician Cuts Due to Utilization Overestimates 10/25/2024
- TestimonyACP Statement to House Ways and Means Committee Health Subcommittee Hearing on the Collapse of Private Practice: Examining the Challenges Facing Independent Medicine 5/23/2024
- LetterACP Comments on 2025 Physician Fee Schedule, Medicare Shared Savings Program, and Quality Payment Program Proposed Rule 9/6/2024
- LetterSign-On Letter Regarding UHC's GI Endoscopy Prior Authorization Program 5/8/2023
- LetterJoint Letter to Cigna Regarding Modifier 25 Policy 4/18/2023
Search the ACP Policy Library
To access everything ACP has said related to Medicare reform issues search all policy statements, copies of testimony, and letters to government and non-government officials.