Philadelphia, July 12, 2016 -- Nitin Damle, MD, MS, FACP, president of the Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ (ACP), issued the following statement about , a report issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the Academies).
(Washington, July 8, 2016) A new proposed rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will greatly strengthen the ability of primary care physicians to provide high value, coordinated and patient-centered care to their patients enrolled in Medicare, said the Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ (ACP) today.
(Washington, June 27, 2016)—The Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ (ACP) offered its recommendations for improvements to the proposed rule to implement the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in a letter submitted today to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator, Andy Slavitt. If accepted by CMS, the College’s recommendations would replace an unnecessarily complex quality scoring system with a much simpler and understanda
