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The Partnership to Empower Physician-Led Care (PEPC) applauds the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center (CMMI) for its commitment to ensuring that value-based care is a path to sustainability for independent practices and physicians in its new strategic direction to Make America Healthy Again. Evaluations of past and current CMMI models clearly demonstrate …

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PEPC sent a letter to CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz congratulating him on his new leadership role at CMS. PEPC looks forward to working with Administrator Oz to strengthen our health care system by promoting physician-led payment models and robust provider competition through innovation in key areas such as new payment structures and arrangements, burden reduction, …

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PEPC joined stakeholders in a letter to the Senate Finance Committee and House Energy & Commerce Committee leadership urging Congress to develop bipartisan policy solutions that strengthen Medicaid while rejecting proposals that would destabilize primary care and the Medicaid funding which sustains many practices. Reducing federal support for Medicaid not only places policy innovations at …

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The Partnership to Empower Physician-Led Care (PEPC) has long advocated for payment parity between physician offices and hospital outpatient departments as one way to level the playing field for independent physicians. Site specific payment policies drive consolidation, higher costs for Medicare and further stacks the deck against independent physicians and practices. That is why we …

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PEPC appreciates the opportunity to provide input on the proposed Calendar Year (CY) 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rule. As outlined in the letter, our comments specifically focus how select provisions of the proposed rule will impact health care competition and value-based care opportunities for independent physicians. As many value-based care models continue to be …

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STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD: “Checking-In on CMMI: Assessing the Transition to Value-Based Care” The Partnership to Empower Physician-Led Care (PEPC) is an advocacy coalition supporting value-based care to reduce costs, improve quality, empower patients and physicians, and increase access to care for millions of Americans through a competitive health care provider market. We believe that …

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The Partnership to Empower Physician-Led Care (PEPC) was pleased to submit comments on the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), proposed in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (PPS) proposed rule. Our comments raise two points: To read our full comments, click here.

The Partnership to Empower Physician-Led Care (PEPC) submitted a statement for the recording following the House Ways & Means Committee, Subcommittee on Health hearing “The Collapse of Private Practice: Examining the Challenges Facing Independent Medicine.” Our comments highlight the role of value-based care in supporting and preserving today’s independent workforce. Many independent practices are doing …

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To better understand the independent physician practice experience in CMS Innovation Center models, the Partnership to Empower Physician-Led Care (PEPC) reviewed evaluation reports from several CMS Innovation Center models: the ACO Investment Model (AIM), Next Generation ACO (NGACO) Model, Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Initiative and CPC Plus (CPC+). This white paper highlights the experience and …

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