FFFM | July Family Medicine Advocacy Rounds
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Show Notes
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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