FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025
CONTACT: Sara Matthews, [email protected], (281) 650-2961

HEALTHCARE LEADERS URGE CONGRESS TO EXTEND MEDICARE’S INCENTIVE FOR VALUE-BASED CARE

Call comes as Reps. LaHood (R-Ill.), DelBene (D-Wash.), Dunn (R-Fla.), and Schrier (D-Wash.) introduce the Preserving Patient Access to Accountable Care Act

“Continuing the incentives for physicians and other clinicians to participate in advanced alternative payment models (APMs) is critical to sustaining and advancing Medicare’s transition to value-based care. Setting the incentives at 3.5% for those who participate in qualifying models in 2025 will demonstrate the importance that Congress places on this work. We urge Congress to extend these incentives soon to give APM participants clear signals for this year. Congress should then turn to making broader reforms that would provide sustainable, predictable revenue streams for clinicians, and that would support their ability to participate in APMs and create the capacities to provide higher-quality, lower-cost care.”

– Susan Dentzer, Alliance for Value-Based Patient Care, president and chief executive officer of America’s Physician Groups 

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About the Alliance for Value-Based Patient Care

The Alliance for Value-Based Patient Care is a national coalition dedicated to advancing policies that promote value and quality in U.S. healthcare. Alliance steering committee members include America’s Physician Groups, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, the Health Care Transformation Task Force, the National Association of ACOs, and Premier Inc. Alliance members include AHIP, America’s Essential Hospitals, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians, the American Society for Radiation Oncology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, AMGA, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the California Hospital Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, the Medical Group Management Association, the National Rural Health Association, the Partnership to Empower Physician-Led Care, the Primary Care Collaborative, and the Renal Physicians Association. Learn more at https://valuebasedcare.org.