America's Physician Groups

The publication of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule on Nov. 1 leaves in place proposed physician fee cuts for 2025 and in fact bumps them slightly higher, to 2.93 percent, as a result of other changes in the fee schedule. “We are disappointed,” said Susan Dentzer, President and CEO of America’s Physician Groups. “Any action to blunt the crippling effect of the fee cuts will now be the responsibility of Congress.”   As widely reported, inflation-adjusted Medicare physician fees have fallen by 29 percent since 2001 due to fee schedule changes and the lack of a full update for medical practice inflation. APG looks forward to working with congressional policymakers in the coming weeks and months to shape plans for moderating the proposed fee cut, and ideally, eliminating it altogether.   Other aspects of the final MPFS rule are far more favorable for physician practices and APG member organizations, APG noted. “We welcome such measures as allowing eligible Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) with a history of success in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, including many of our member groups, to receive advances on their earned shared savings,” Dentzer said. Also beneficial will be new coding and payment policies for advanced primary care management services that, as CMS noted, will constitute a new pathway to #accountablecare built into the fee schedule, and will help to increase the number of smaller physician practices committed to #valuebasedcare.

Interested in: ✔ the current status of the #valuebasedcare movement? ✔ the impact of pharmacy in value-based models in traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage? ✔ emerging trends in #healthcare? Featuring guest Patrick Conway and moderated by APG's own Valinda Rutledge and Jennifer Podulka, you don't want to miss this FREE webinar. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ePVC-5jM

APG CEO Susan Dentzer is quoted in this AJMC - The American Journal of Managed Care piece about the 2023 #MSSP savings results ($2.1 billion!). We congratulate all the APG member organizations participating in the #ACOs cited by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for high performance. #valuebasedcare

Physician-led groups focused on primary care - including many of APG's member organizations - continue to produce top results in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (#MSSP). APG applauds the efforts of all the #ACOs working to provide superior care and improve health, while reducing costs for government and taxpayers to the tune of $2.1 billion in net savings. Read our full news release here: https://lnkd.in/e6MrbgMx

We applaud the performance of our members who contributed to saving $2.1 billion for the federal government and taxpayers through the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The 2023 results demonstrate that physician-led #ACOs produce the highest net savings, and we believe they are the best path forward for U.S. health care. #accountablecare #valuebasedcare https://lnkd.in/ejxMKugY

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Grappling with the realities of integrating primary and specialty care? Register for #APGFallCon2024 to gain actionable advice from current and past heads of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. https://lnkd.in/edwNJUsG Speaker Lineup: Adam Boehler | CEO, Rubicon Founders and Former Director, CMMI Liz F., PhD | Deputy Administrator and Director, CMMI Sarah Meshkat, MHA | Director, Office of Population Health & Accountable Care, UCLA Health Martin Serota, MD | CEO, RheoMed MSO, Inc.

It will be impossible to move clinicians away from fee-for-service and into #valuebasedcare if perverse incentives continue to reward over-utilization, says Valinda Rutledge, APG's Executive Vice President for Advocacy and Education.

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