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September 7, 2022
Academy Urges Congress, CMS to Collaborate to Reform Physician Payments
In a 50-plus-page letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator, we urged the agency to engage with Congress to ensure appropriate physician reimbursement and reform of the Medicare payment system.
June 1, 2022
Academy Endorses AMA Principles on Physician Payment Reform
The Academy has joined 120 state medical and national specialty societies to help develop and endorse the American Medical Association’s Characteristics of a Rational Medicare Physician Payment System.  
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A chart showing how the rise in various medical costs has far outpaced physician payments
May 10, 2022
Academy Joins Campaign to Advance Medicare Physician Payment Reform

The Academy has joined the AMA and other medical groups in an effort to change the Medicare physician payment system to improve the financial viability of physician practices and ease their administrative burdens.