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APTQI Joins More Than 100 Organizations on Letter to Congressional Leadership Urging Action to Address Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Cuts
The Alliance for Physical Therapy Quality and Innovation (APTQI) joined more than 100 organizations representing more than one million physician and non-physician healthcare professionals in signing a letter to Senate Finance, House Ways and Means, and House Energy and Commerce Committee leadership urging Congress to take action to mitigate the scheduled payment cuts in the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) CY2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule. The proposed rule once again includes deep, across-the-board payment cuts to specialty providers, cutting the Medicare conversion factor by 4.5 percent in 2023. With the physical therapy field still dealing ... Read more
APTQI Urges Congress to Ensure Continued Patient Access to Specialty Care, Investment in MPFS
The Alliance for Physical Therapy Quality and Innovation (APTQI) today joined more than 60 organizations representing over one million physician and non-physician health care providers in calling on Congress to enact provisions that will ensure continued Medicare beneficiary access to vital services and provide additional financial stability to the United States’ healthcare system. In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the groups call attention to the financial turbulence instigated by the COVID-19 pandemic and describe how this instability was ... Read more