The top priorities on the legislative agenda include:
• Independent Payment Advisory Board Repeal
• Comprehensive medical liability reform
• Supporting quality resident training and education
• Repealing the medical device excise tax
• Supporting new grants for trauma and emergency care
• Moving Medicare toward a defined contribution model
• Sustainable growth rate fix
• Drastic changes to Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Systems, Electronic Health Records program and value-based payment modifier, or complete elimination of these programs to implement better systems for collecting and reporting clinical data
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