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You are here: Home / Articles / ACR Hill Visits Yield Key Bill Support; Plus Medicare, Biosimilar Wins

ACR Hill Visits Yield Key Bill Support; Plus Medicare, Biosimilar Wins

May 20, 2019 • By Angus Worthing, MD, FACP, FACR

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Stay tuned for this summer’s Medicare Physician Fee Schedule announcement; if these cuts aren’t reversed, I’ll tell you about your opportunity to raise your voice at regulations.gov.

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Meanwhile, good news from the ACR’s RISE registry: Every single practice that submitted MIPS data to Medicare through RISE in MACRA’s first year (2017) not only avoided penalties for 2019 but also achieved exceptional bonus payments.

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As I wrap up, I remind you to stay up to date and join the conversation to raise your voice by following me on Twitter. Even though I don’t have my own member of Congress yet (since I live in D.C.), I love giving you brief, actionable tweets about what you can do to exercise your First Amendment rights for rheumatology.

P.S.: Make a difference right now, and email Congress.

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Angus Worthing, MD, FACP, FACR, chair, Government Affairs Committee, is a practicing rheumatologist in the Washington, D.C., metro area and clinical assistant professor of medicine at Georgetown University.

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Filed Under: American College of Rheumatology, Legislation & Advocacy, Meeting Reports Tagged With: 2019 fly-in, ACR Capitol Hill visit, Biosimilars, medical school loans, Medicare, Medicare Reimbursement, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), Safe Step Act of 2019 (H.R. 2279), step therapy reform legislation

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