Description

In this episode, AAFP Vice President of Government Relations David Tully talks with Natalie Williams, the Academy’s senior manager of legislative affairs, about what Congress’ newly passed spending package means for family physician practices. Their conversation was recorded just ahead of final voting on the $1.2 trillion spending bill, putting it into context with budget provisions passed earlier in March. This episode outlines the AAFP’s wins in the spending package, how the Academy worked to secure these wins and what’s next for the Academy’s congressional advocacy this year.

In the second half of the podcast, Kate Freeman, Market Transformation Manager for the AAFP's Practice Advancement Division, offers an overview of new tools to help AAFP members best use Medicare’s G2211 add-on code.

Some of the resources mentioned include:

• Speak Out for Physician Payment Reform and Workforce Improvements
• G2211 Add-on Code: What It Is and When To Use It
• AAFP 2024 Family Medicine Advocacy Summit

Topics by Timestamp

• 00:00 Welcome to Fighting for Family Medicine: Congressional Advocacy Update
• 01:10 Meet Natalie Williams, senior manager of legislative affairs for the AAFP
• 01:32 Congress has partly rolled back a cut to 2024 Medicare physician payment.
• 02:01 Other family medicine wins in the final budget just passed by Congress
• 04:36 The AAFP’s approach to advocating for physician payment, including long-term reforms
• 06:49 Workforce advocacy
• 08:03 Previewing the Academy’s advocacy in the remainder of 2024
• 12:41 Updating AAFP members about the Medicare G2211 add-on code with Kate Freeman of the Academy’s Practice Advancement Division.
• 13:35 Feedback from members about modifier 25
• 14:00 Advocating for G2211 with commercial payers
• 15:00 New, member-exclusive tools to help use G2211
• 15:56 How the AAFP is working to expand G2211 beyond Medicare and how members can do this on their own behalf
• 17:40 Private payer coverage matrix allows members to keep track of G2211’s evolution.
• 17:58 How the Academy advocates with private payers
• 21:25 Join your colleagues at the AAFP’s Family Medicine Advocacy Summit in May.

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