Advocacy/Legislative Priorities

Important News

2023 PA-ACP Advocacy Success for members

Ask Congress to support telehealth expansion and reverse Medicare payment cuts. (8/15/24)

Write Congress to support price transparency and prior auth reform. (10/19/23)

PA-ACP to support efforts at MA recertification (1/22/23)

State Supreme Court Rules with Physicians (12/14/22)

Prior Authorization Reforms Signed into Law (11/3/22)

PA-ACP responds to Court venue action (9/1/2022)

PA-ACP asks extension of subsidies to protect neediest Pennsylvanians (7/25/2022)

45.3 billion state budget passed for 2022-23 with record education and health spending (7/8/22)

State Senate Passes Prior Authorization Reform - SB 225 (6/29/22)

PA-ACP seeks actuarial study of venue change issue (3/6/22)

PA-ACP calls for immediate action to address licensing delays. (2/2/22)

PA-ACP Priority State Advocacy Efforts for 2022  (12/31/21)

Contact your State Senator to pass prior authorization reform (11/8/21)

PA-ACP Goes to Court for its Members (11-7-21)

Senate passes telemedicine regulation bill (10-27-21)

PCCJR Op-Ed: PA Legislature Must Save Med Mal Venue Rule (10-6-21)

PA-ACP opposes stock exemption forms for vaccines, masking. (9-11-21)

PA-ACP joins in court case over statute of limitations in med mal cases (7-20-21)

Act 56 protects access to nursing home ventilator and tracheostomy care (7-3-21)

PA-ACP praises passage of informed consent legislative fix (6-30-21)

PA-ACP praises DiSanto, Phillips-Hill for work on Prior Authorization reforms. (6-23-21)

Telemedicine bill advances - PA-ACP supporting payment equity. (6-24-21)

PA-ACP again tells General Assembly to reject CNRP independent practice bill (3-22-21)

Governor Wolf Vetoes Limited Civil Immunity for Physicians (11/30/20)

HHS Makes Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Reforms to Support Coordinated, Value-Based Care (11/23/20)

HHS, FDA Take Steps to Lower Prescription Drug Prices (11/20/20)

ACP Urges CMS to ensure payment changes move forward, seeks more support for physician practices (10/2/20)

Physicians, Nurse Practitioners reach landmark scope agreement (9/29/20)

Advocacy in a Pandemic (9-12-20)

Wolf Proposes 2020-2021 State Budget (2-11-20)

Click Here for more information on the Venue Rule Change.

PRESS RELEASE:
Prior Authorization Update (10-28-19)

THE NEW MED MAL CRISIS…THE COURTS, PA-ACP AND YOU

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Chair of the Health and Public Policy Committee
Amy Davis, DO, MS, FACP
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President, PA-ACP Services Inc.
Rachel Ramirez, MD, FACP
Email: Rachel.Ramirez@jefferson.edu

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