- The Honorable Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Chair
House Energy and Commerce Committee
2125 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515 - The Honorable Brett Guthrie
Chair, Health Subcommittee
House Energy and Commerce Committee
2125 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
RE: Physician Payment Reform Outline
Dear Chair Rodgers and Chair Guthrie:
The Alliance of Specialty Medicine (the “Alliance”) represents more than 100,000 specialty physicians and surgeons across 16 specialty and subspecialty societies, and is deeply committed to improving access to specialty medical care through the advancement of sound health care policy. As patient and physician advocates, the undersigned organizations appreciate your efforts to address systemic issues with the Medicare physician payment system.
We also greatly appreciate your proactive engagement and willingness to collaborate with us and other stakeholders. As you know, the Alliance continues to have serious concerns about structural challenges and instability in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). We write to offer comments in response to the draft physician payment reform outline circulated in September. Our comments address the major pain points our specialty organizations and their members face under the current Medicare physician payment system and value-based purchasing program.
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