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The AMA has joined dozens of other physician and health care associations and hundreds of accountable care organizations (ACOs), health systems, hospitals and physician practices in calling on Congress to take steps to sustain the nation’s transition to value-based care.
Congress, the AMA and others said, should prioritize extension of Medicare’s advanced alternative payment model (APM) incentive payments and stop drastic increases in qualifying thresholds—actions that are part of the bipartisan, bicameral Preserving Patient Access to Accountable Care Act (H.R. 786; S. 1460).
“Addressing these critical issues as soon as possible will ensure that physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers have the resources and regulatory certainty needed to support beneficiaries’ continued access to high quality, patient-centered care,” says a letter to congressional leaders from the AMA, 23 physician and health care associations and more than 550 ACOs and other health care organizations.