AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

HCR · Health Issues

Medicare physician reimbursement and the importance of long-term structural reform to the reimbursement system The Reducing Medically Unnecessary Delays in Care Act (H.R. 2433) would require all Medicare plans to have only medically necessary prior authorization policies for both prescription drugs and services. It also requires all appeals and peer-to-peers be conducted by a doctor in the same specialty as the patients condition. The Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act (H.R. 879), and reforms to the Medicare physician reimbursement system that center patient access to care, while ensuring pay keeps up with inflation and the cost of providing services. Expanding the definition of a preventive service to surveillance colonoscopy. Efforts to secure appropriations language that guides action at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Opposing National Institutes of Health (NIH) research cuts

Literal federal measure citations: H.R. 2433, H.R. 879

MED · Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs

Opposing National Institutes of Health (NIH) research cuts

INS · Insurance

The Reducing Medically Unnecessary Delays in Care Act (H.R. 2433) would require all Medicare plans to have only medically necessary prior authorization policies for both prescription drugs and services. It also requires all appeals and peer-to-peers be conducted by a doctor in the same specialty as the patients condition.

Literal federal measure citations: H.R. 2433

MMM · Medicare/Medicaid

Medicare physician reimbursement and the importance of long-term structural reform to the reimbursement system The Reducing Medically Unnecessary Delays in Care Act (H.R. 2433) would require all Medicare plans to have only medically necessary prior authorization policies for both prescription drugs and services. It also requires all appeals and peer-to-peers be conducted by a doctor in the same specialty as the patients condition. The Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act (H.R. 879), and reforms to the Medicare physician reimbursement system that center patient access to care, while ensuring pay keeps up with inflation and the cost of providing services.

Literal federal measure citations: H.R. 2433, H.R. 879