Agreement on short-term SGR 'patch' fails to ensure access to care or advance needed reforms

This is a joint Statement of the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Physicians, American College of Surgeons, and American Osteopathic Association. Our organizations, representing nearly 400,000 physicians and medical student members, are deeply disappointed by the agreement in Congress to enact another short-term "patch" that neither solves, nor moves us closer to solving, the Medicare physician payment crisis. Read more