American College of Cardiology

The ACC’s CardioAdvocacy Network (ACC│CAN) lets you stay up to date on critical issues facing the cardiovascular community and provides you with the tools you need to help shape health care policy at the federal, state and local levels.

ACTION ALERTS:

Congress Needs to Hear From You on the Sustainable Growth Rate

Now is the time for Congress to hear from cardiovascular specialists that a permanent replacement of the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula is necessary. As of March 1, the temporary patch for the SGR will expire, and Medicare payments to all medical providers will be cut an additional 21.5 percent. Although the House of Representatives in November 2009 passed a bill to eliminate the SGR cuts (H.R. 3961), the Senate has been unsuccessful in passing similar legislation (S. 1776).

Tell your members of Congress to pass legislation to permanently replace the broken SGR formula. Contact your member of the House by clicking here, your Senators by clicking here or call them at (800) 210-7193.

Meanwhile, the ACC continues its efforts to fight the cardiology payment cuts from the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. Ask your representative to cosponsor H.R. 4371, introduced by Rep. Gonzalez (D-TX) to stop the fee schedule cuts. Click here to see if your member of the House has cosponsored the Gonzalez legislation. Please ask your Senators to help fight the fee schedule cuts by leading legislation similar to the Gonzalez legislation in the House.

Be a part of the House of Medicine’s call to Congress, urging them to provide a permanent solution to the ongoing physician payment dilemma. Contact your members of Congress today!

Thank you for your efforts and all that you do for ACC Advocacy.

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