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On May 23, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to identify the financial and regulatory burdens facing independent medical providers and how continued challenges result in consolidated health care systems and barriers to patient care. The CAP submitted a statement for the record detailing the burdens that pathologists face and recommendations on how Congress can help mitigate those burdens to improve patient care and support physicians. The CAP requested the following:
- Combating Private Payer Challenges: The CAP requested the committee pass policies to reign in private payers, including insurer consolidation and increasing prior authorization and utilization management policies.
- Ensuring Sustainable Provider Financing: The CAP requested that the committee pass legislation to provide an inflationary update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.
- Improving the Effectiveness of MACRA: The CAP requested that the committee reduce regulatory burdens in MACRA by reducing the complexity of the Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) compliance and scoring and preserving MIPS track and traditional reporting options.
Finally, with a national burnout rate of more than 50% among physicians at a time when the health care system is facing a critical shortage of physicians, the CAP asked the committee to invest in physicians today and the workforce of tomorrow.