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Washington (November 30, 2017)— Provisions in the Senate tax bill that would eliminate the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) requirement that persons purchase qualified health insurance coverage (individual mandate) and lead to deep cuts to Medicare and other federal health programs will do great harm to tens of millions of the most vulnerable patients including seniors, said the Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ (ACP) in a letter sent to Senate leadership this afternoon.  In the let

Washington (November 21, 2017)—While the Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ (ACP) is supportive of the role that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) plays in the move toward value-based payment models, it has significant concerns about several elements of its plans to test new payment models.

Washington (November 20, 2017)—Efforts to improve health care price transparency through increasing access to meaningful  information can work to mend the fragmentation of health care, said the Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ (ACP) in a new policy paper released today.

Chronic Hepatitis B can lead to serious health issues

Philadelphia, November 21, 2017 -- Reducing chronic hepatitis B infections by screening at-risk adults, increasing hepatitis B vaccination rates, and linking infected persons to care is a public health priority, the Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ (ACP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advise in a published today in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Washington (November 16, 2017)—Our organizations, which represent more than 560,000 physicians and medical students, strongly support policies that ensure every American has access to affordable health coverage. We are concerned that a proposed provision in the Senate tax reform legislation to repeal the individual mandate is inconsistent with our goals.