Priority Issues
Learn more about the advocacy priorities for chest medicine, which have real and profound implications for your patients and your practice. This section includes relevant background information, including talking points, graphs, and legislation.
Current Advocacy Priorities for Chest Medicine
Documents filed by ACCP and other Specialty Societies, In the US District Court for the District of Columbia, on behalf of all physicians impacted by Federal Trade Commission Red Flags Rule.
Permanently Repealing the Flawed Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate Formula
- Talking Points/The “Ask”
- Q&A
- Graph
- Impact of Medicare physician payment cuts by state
- ACCP Principles for Health System Reform
The Critical Care Workforce Crisis
- Talking Points/The “Ask”
- Q&A
- Graph
- Critical Care and Pulmonary Disease Physicians in the United States, Association of American Medical Colleges, 2008
- “Indiana Medical School Cuts Number Of Students Amid Budget Cuts,” Kaiser Health News, February 4, 2010
- The legislation
- ACCP Principles for Health System Reform
- The Critical Care Workforce Shortage: An ACCP Advocacy Education Podcast
- “e-Dear Colleague” letter from Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-9)
and Eric Cantor (R-VA-7)
May 19, 2009 - Press release from the Office of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
May 12, 2009 - “Dear Colleague” letter from Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Mike Crapo (R-ID)
May 7, 2009 - Press release from the Office of Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
March 18, 2009 - 2004 CHEST special report
Medicare Elimination of Consultation Codes
Permanently Repealing the Flawed Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate Formula
- Talking Points/The “Ask”
- Q&A
- Graph
- Impact of Medicare physician payment cuts by state
- ACCP Principles for Health System Reform
2010: The Year of the Lung
Health System Reform
