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The CAP has been aggressively advocating for immediate improvements to our nation’s health care infrastructure, especially to improve access and quality care in rural and underserved areas. Data from a recent CAP survey shows that 44% of pathology practices provide services to hospitals or laboratories in rural areas. Further, workforce issues, increasing health care consolidation, and “patchwork financing models” contribute to access to care issues. The CAP wrote a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee outlining recommendations on how to create payment systems that are predictable and stable, to ensure that physicians can remain in practice, especially in rural and underserved areas. CAP recommendations included passing legislation that will end the cycle of Medicare payment cuts, reduce the cost and burden of participation in the Quality Payment Program, and meet the demand for pathologists by increasing the number of pathologist residency positions available each year. The CAP encouraged the committee to provide innovative solutions that minimize physician administrative, financial, and technological burdens of participation that do not hinder the quality of patient care.
The CAP has been aggressively advocating for immediate improvements to our nation’s health care infrastructure, especially to improve access and quality care in rural and underserved areas. Data from a recent CAP survey shows that 44% of pathology practices provide services to hospitals or laboratories in rural areas. Further, workforce issues, increasing health care consolidation, and “patchwork financing models” contribute to access to care issues. The CAP wrote a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee outlining recommendations on how to create payment systems that are predictable and stable, to ensure that physicians can remain in practice, especially in rural and underserved areas.
CAP recommendations included passing legislation that will end the cycle of Medicare payment cuts, reduce the cost and burden of participation in the Quality Payment Program, and meet the demand for pathologists by increasing the number of pathologist residency positions available each year.
The CAP encouraged the committee to provide innovative solutions that minimize physician administrative, financial, and technological burdens of participation that do not hinder the quality of patient care.