AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS for AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS

Health Issues HCR

HR2119, Ryan Creedon Act, Opposing a requirement that physicians be specifically trained on the dangers of addictive drugs. HR3630, Welfare Integrity and Data Improvement Act, Ten month extension of Medicare physician fee schedule. HR3667, Primary Care Workforce Access Improvement Act of 2011, GME modernization pilot program authorization and funding for non-hospital training sites. HR5, Medical liability reform and IPAB repeal Protecting Access to Healthcare Act, Medical liability reform. HR452, Medicare Decision Accountability Act, Revamping the Independent Payment Advisory Board. HR5707, Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act of 2012, Replace Medicare physician payment's SGR with higher payment rates for primary care. HR5888, Physician Reentry Demonstration Program Act, Revise bill so sub-specialists do not reenter practice as primary care docs in CHCs, VA clinics and school based centers. S3187, Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012, discussion on Opioid abuse and pain management as part of PDUFA reauthorization. Support appropriate prescription drug monitoring which is not burdensome to family physicians. S3295, Department of Labor Appropriations Act 2013, Support increased appropriations for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in FY2013, AHRQ funding budget priority, Support increased FY13 spending on Title VII Sec 747 primary care training grants. No Bill Number, FDA/CDER meeting on chronic pain management, Effective pain management. No Bill Number, 2013 Family Physician of the Year competition judge. No Bill Number, Protect access to healthcare act, Medical liability reform. No Bill Number, Medicare physician payment reform of the Sustainable Growth Rate, Medicare physician pay cuts scheduled for 2013. No Bill Number, Increasing physician awareness of TBI and PTSD, Promoting family physician ability to assist with these conditions. No Bill Number, Comprehensive Primary Care, Medical Home and Healthcare Reform. No Bill Number, PCPCC Center for Consumer Engagement, Medical Home and Health Care Reform. No Bill Number, Tobacco cessation, Health of the public. No Bill Number, Primary care meeting, Medical Home and Health Care Reform. No Bill Number, Meaningful Use meetings, Medical Home and Health Care Reform. No Bill Number, Electronic Health Records, Ensuring payments for true primary care physicians. No Bill Number, 2013 proposed inpatient PPS, Supporting GME slots for primary care. No Bill Number, Valuation of Primary Care, strategies for improving primary care payment in the physician fee schedule. No Bill Number, Primary care incentive payment PCIP, Re-question CMS release data on PCIP use. No Bill Number, National Priorities and Research Agenda, PCORI should focus research on more common medical conditions first. No Bill Number, National School lunch program, Improve school nutrition programs accessed through state education by providing incentives for school nutrition providers to replace foods with little or no nutritional value. No Bill Number, Oppose repeal of subsidies for health insurance exchanges. No Bill Number, Medicare physician fee schedule for 2013, Support for short term payment reforms to allow primary care access to non face to face codes. No Bill Number, Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, Promote the CPCI to family physician practices in the seven geographic markets. No Bill Number, Medicaid payments to primary care physicians, Oppose expansion of definition of physicians who are eligible for primary care Medicaid support. No Bill Number, White House meeting on improving health care coordination and quality. Support for Patient Centered Medical Home as a health care delivery model to improve coordination of care. No Bill Number, White House meeting on implementation of meaningful use of HIT, Support for standards of interoperability of HIT systems. No Bill Number, Adequacy and accuracy of Medicare physician payment, Positive payment differential for primary care physicians. No Bill Number, Patient Centered Medical Home, Increasing support for the concept in discussing delivery system reform.

Contacted: Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); White House Office

Bills named: H.R. 5 (112th), H.R. 3667 (112th), H.R. 2119 (112th), H.R. 5888 (112th), H.R. 5707 (112th), H.R. 452 (112th), H.R. 3630 (112th)

Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice LAW

S507, Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, funding for state monitoring of prescription drug use. No Bill Number, Labor HHS Appropriations Bill, Support for funding Health Professions grants program and funding for HRSA and AHRQ.

Contacted: Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); SENATE; Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); White House Office; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Tobacco TOB

No Bill Number, Preventing tobacco use among youth, Enhancing the efforts to prevent young people from using tobacco products.

Contacted: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); White House Office; SENATE; Food & Drug Administration (FDA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)

Torts TOR

HR5, Medical liability reform and IPAB repeal Protecting Access to Healthcare Act, Medical liability reform.

Contacted: Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE; Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; White House Office; Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)

Bills named: H.R. 5 (112th)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

HR5, Protecting Access to Health Are Act, Capping medical liability. HR452, Medicare Decisions Accountability Act, Revamping the independent payment advisory board. HR3630, Welfare Integrity and Data Improvement Act, Ten month extension of Medicare physician fee schedule. HR3667, Primary Care Workforce Access Improvement Act of 2011, GME modernization pilot program authorization, Direct GME funding for non-hospital training sites. HR 4013, Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act, ten month extension of the Medicare physician fee schedule. HR5707, Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act of 2012, Replace Medicare physician payment's SGR with higher payment rates for primary care. No Bill Number, Valuation of Primary Care, strategies for improving primary care payment in the physician fee schedule. No Bill Number, Primary care incentive payment PCIP, Re-question CMS release data on PCIP use. No Bill Number, Medicaid payments to primary care physicians, Oppose expansion of definition of physicians who are eligible for primary care Medicaid support. No Bill Number, Medicare physician payment reform of the Sustainable Growth Rate, Medicare physician pay cuts scheduled for 2013. No Bill Number, Increasing physician awareness of TBI and PTSD, Promoting family physician ability to assist with these conditions. No Bill Number, Comprehensive Primary Care, Medical Home and Healthcare Reform. No Bill Number, PCPCC Center for Consumer Engagement, Medical Home and Health Care Reform. No Bill Number, Tobacco cessation, Health of the public. No Bill Number, Primary care meeting, Medical Home and Health Care Reform. No Bill Number, Meaningful Use meetings, Medical Home and Health Care Reform. No Bill Number, Electronic Health Records, Ensuring payments for true primary care physicians. No Bill Number, 2013 proposed inpatient PPS, Supporting GME slots for primary care.

Contacted: Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); White House Office; SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)

Bills named: H.R. 3630 (112th), H.R. 4013 (112th), H.R. 5 (112th), H.R. 3667 (112th), H.R. 452 (112th), H.R. 5707 (112th)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

S3295, Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2013, Support increased FY13 spending on Title VII Sec 747 primary care training grants. No Bill Number, Medicare physician payment reform of the Sustainable Growth Rate, Medicare physician pay cuts scheduled for 2013. No Bill Number, Oppose repeal of subsidies for health insurance exchanges.

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); SENATE; Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); White House Office; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Insurance INS

HR 5, Protecting Access to Health Care Act, Capping medical liability. No Bill Number, Oppose repeal of subsidies for health insurance exchanges. No Bill Number, Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, Promote the CPCI to family physician practices in seven geographic markets.

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; White House Office; Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)

Bills named: H.R. 5 (112th)

Consumer Issues/Safety/Products CSP

No Bill Number, Proposal to create "Special medical use" category of prescription drugs, Should FDA create category of drugs that non physicians like pharmacists could prescribe.

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); White House Office; SENATE; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.) FOO

No Bill Number, National School lunch program, Improve school nutrition programs accessed through state education by providing incentives for school nutrition providers to replace foods with little or no nutritional value.

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); SENATE; Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); White House Office

Education EDU

HR2119, Ryan Creedon Act, Opposing a requirement that physicians be specifically trained on the dangers of addictive drugs. HR3667, Primary Care Workforce Access Improvement Act of 2011, GME modernization pilot program authorization and funding for non-hospital training sites. S3295, Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2013, Support increased FY13 spending on Title VII Sec 747 primary care training grants. S507, Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, funding for state monitoring of prescription drug use. No Bill Number, Labor HHS Appropriations Bill, Support for funding Health Professions grants program and funding for HRSA and AHRQ.

Contacted: White House Office; Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); SENATE; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)

Bills named: H.R. 2119 (112th), H.R. 3667 (112th)

Pharmacy PHA

No Bill Number, Proposal to create "Special medical use" category of prescription drugs, Should FDA create category of drugs that non physicians like pharmacists could prescribe. No Bill Number, National Priorities and Research Agenda, PCORI should focus research on more common medical conditions first.

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); SENATE; Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); White House Office; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES