AMA’s August Recess Campaign:
Fix Medicare Now
August 1st, 2024
8:00 PM ET
Join the AMA for an informative virtual session that will review the current state of federal legislation and ways in which physician advocates can engage their members of Congress during the month of August, whether their lawmaker is a champion of physician policy priorities or not.
Also learn about resources developed by the AMA to provide guidance to physician advocates in scheduling and preparing for in-district legislative meetings, hosting Members of Congress at site visits, and best practices for interacting and conversing with them online.
Editor’s Note: New Advocacy Resources Available on AMA Fix Medicare Now Page
Two new AMA developed advocacy resources are now available on the AMA’s Fix Medicare Now landing page. Both summarize information from the latest 2022 Quality Payment Program experience report (pdf).
The first includes several key takeaways from the report, including continued disproportionately low MIPS scores for small, rural, and other types of practices, and notes how APM participation is at a critical inflection point with Qualifying APM Participant (QP) thresholds set to increase next year.
The second leverages 2022 data to demonstrate how AMA’s Data-driven Performance Payment System (DPPS) solution would correct several persistent MIPS flaws by stabilizing Medicare physician payments, improving clinical reliability, and reducing reporting burden to stabilize patient access to medical services.