CMS Administrator Shares Agency Policy Priorities at AMA HOD

CMS Administrator, Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA, addressed several hundred physicians — including the ACR® delegation — Nov. 17 during the AMA’s House of Delegates (HOD) Interim meeting.

Dr. Oz detailed priorities the Trump Administration is pursuing that he believes will empower Medicare beneficiaries by reducing costs and increasing administrative efficiency, while enabling physicians to spend more time with patients and less time filling out paperwork. He shared several CMS goals, including:

• Faster approval of AI tools that would make clinicians’ lives easier, not harder, and restore time for meaningful provider/beneficiary conversations with patients that reduce prior authorization times from days to minutes.
  
• Increased efforts to combat fraud and waste by changing incentives and oversight and stopping improper payments before money leaves CMS.
  
• Establishment of “gold carding” programs to reduce the prior authorization burden by aligning practice patterns with evidence-based clinical standards and payer expectations.

ACR continues to work with CMS and the administration to improve Medicare by reducing inefficiencies and providing innovative solutions for healthcare providers and beneficiaries. 

For more information or if you have questions, contact Josh Cooper, ACR Vice President, Congressional Affairs, Government Relations.