AAFP Government Relations Vice President David Tully recaps the Academy’s federal advocacy over the past month.

Resources

• July 2024 Family Medicine Advocacy Rounds newsletter (for chapter staff only)
• AAFP statement and In the Trenches blog post on the 2025 Medicare physician fee schedule proposed rule.
• AAFP Members only: Speak Out campaign supporting the Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act (H.R. 2474)
• Recommendations to Senate Finance Committee on how to reform payment and coverage to better value primary care.
• The AAFP’s letter for the record in response to a House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on improving value-based payment for clinicians and patients.
• AAFP letters in response to the Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees' respective hearings on improving value-based payment for clinicians and payments.
• AAFP statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court upholding EMTALA.
• AAFP Fighting for Family Medicine podcast episode: “When Supreme Court Rulings Affect Family Medicine”
• AAFP recommendations to Senate Finance Committee on graduate medical education reform.
• AAFP letter to CISA on CIRCIA reporting.
• AAFP FY25 letter to the House Appropriations Committee on the federal budget.

Topics by Timestamp

• 00:00 Welcome to Fighting for Family Medicine
• 00:37 AAFP reaction to the 2025 Medicare physician fee schedule proposed rule
• 02:03 Academy guidance to Senate Finance Committee on primary care value and payment
• 03:00 Supreme Court update
• 04:12 Graduate medical education reform
• 04:58 Advocacy centered on the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act
• 05:42 AAFP win on e-prescribing standards
• 06:17 Academy recommendations to House Appropriations Committee on 2025 federal spending
• 07:12 Closing

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