Medical Economics October 14, 2024
Key Takeaways
- AAFP is advocating against the 2.8% cut in the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, promoting value-based care models.
- Increasing primary care spending to 12-14% can reduce downstream costs and improve population health.
- AAFP supports members in navigating healthcare consolidation, addressing private equity and vertical integration impacts.
- The organization remains non-partisan, seeking collaboration with any administration to advance family medicine.
The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, health care consolidation and the next president all can affect the nation’s health through primary care.
Policies in Washington, D.C., are felt in family doctors’ offices around the nation.
How will the American Academy of Family Physicians influence those rules and regulations?
In September, Jen Brull, MD, FAAFP, was installed as the...