2026 – 2023 Advocacy Letters

2026-2023 | 2022

• Comments: NAACOS Response to Congressional Doctors Caucuses MACRA Modernization Request for Information (01/26)
• Response to Battelle on Digital Quality Measures RFI (12/25)
• Letter to Congress: Modernize Care Coordination to Prevent and Treat Chronic Disease (11/25)
• Letter to CMS: Hold ACOs Harmless for Egregious Skin Substitute Spending (11/25)
• Comments: CY2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (09/25)
• Comments: Using Data and Health Information Technology to Transparently Empower Consumers and Support Providers RFI (09/25)
• Comments: Health Technology Ecosystem RFI (06/25)
  
• Comments: FY2026 Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems Proposed Rule (06/25)
  
• Comments: Medicare Regulatory Relief RFI (06/25)
  
• Coalition Letter to Congress: Continued Investment in the Transition to Advanced APMs (05/25)
  
• Comments: OMB RFI on Deregulation (05/25)
  
• Coalition letter to CMS: MSSP Trend Factor (04/25)
  
• Letter to CMS: NAACOS Priorities for Advancing Accountable Care (04/25)
  
• Coalition Letter to MedPAC: Stabilizing and Improving Physician Payment (3/25)
  
• Comments: CY2026 Medicare Advantage and Part D Proposed Rule (1/25)
  
• APM Stakeholder Letter on EOY Priorities for Advancing APMs (11/24)
  
• Comments: PTAC RFI on Maximizing Participation in total cost of care models (11/24)
  
• Comments: CY2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule (09/24)
  
• Coalition Letter to CMS: MSSP Quality Issues (09/24)
  
• Comments: PTAC RFI on patients with complex needs in total cost of care models (08/24)
  
• Coalition Letter to CMS: Proposed Significant, Anomalous, and Highly Suspect Billing Rule (07/24)
  
• Comments: Proposed Significant, Anomalous, and Highly Suspect Billing Rule (07/24)
  
• Comments: Senate Medicare Primary Care Legislation (07/24)
  
• Coalition Letter to Congress: Value-Based Care Stakeholder Recommendations (06/24)
  
• Statement: House Ways and Means Hearing on Value-Based Care (06/24)
  
• Coalition Letter to Congress: Increasing Participation in Alternative Payment Models in Rural Communities (06/24)
  
• Comments: Senate Finance Committee White Paper on Medicare Physician Payment and Chronic Care (06/24)
  
• Coalition Letter to Congress: CMMI Reform Recommendations (06/24)
  
• Comments: Proposed Transforming Episode Accountability Model (06/24)
  
• NAACOS Comments on Proposed Local Coverage Determination for Skin Substitute Grafts (06/24)
  
• NAACOS responds to CMS’s request for information on improving the data collection and transparency of Medicare Advantage Data (05/24)
  
• NAACOS and 10 other national healthcare organizations ask CMS to hold ACOs harmless for anomalous catheter spending (04/24)
  
• Coalition letter to CMS: Repeal new PI requirements (04/24)
  
• Statement: Senate Finance Hearing on Bolstering Chronic Care Through Medicare Physician Payment (04/24)
  
• Coalition Letter to CMS: Repeal Promoting Interoperability Requirements (04/24)
  
• Statement: Senate Budget Hearing on How Primary Care Improves Health Care Efficiency (03/24)
  
• Statement: House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing (02/24)
  
• Comments: Recommendations to CMS for improving the MSSP (01/24)
  
• Comments: Information Blocking Disincentives proposed rule (01/24)
  
• Comments: PRMR Measures Under Consideration list (12/23)
  
• Comments: Recommendations to CMS for safety-net providers in ACOs (12/23)
  
• Statement: House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing (10/23)
  
• Coalition letter to Congress: Extend Advanced APM incentives (10/23)
  
• Comments: House Budget Committee’s Health Care Task Force RFI (10/23)
  
• Comments: House Committee on Ways and Means RFI (10/23)
  
• Comments: CY 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule (09/23)
  
• Comments: PRMR quality measure review committees (09/23) 
  
• Comments: CMS RFI on Episode-based Payment Model (08/23)
  
• Coalition letter: Support for Value in Health Care Act (07/23)
  
• Comments: Senate draft legislation for dual-eligible beneficiaries (07/23)
  
• Testimony: House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on MACRA (06/23)
  
• Statement: Senate Finance Health Subcommittee hearing (05/23) 
  
• Statement: House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing (05/23)
  
• Coalition letter: Support for Chronic Care Management Improvement Act of 2023 (04/23)
  
• Comments: PTAC RFI on specialty engagement in total cost of care models (04/23)
  
• Coalition letter to CMS: Innovate primary care payment in MSSP (03/23)
  
• Comments: Medicare Advantage risk adjustment proposed rule (03/23) 
  
• Coalition letter to Congress: Promoting value-based patient care in Medicare (02/23)
  
• Comments: Aligning HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 proposed rule (01/23)
  
• Comments: Senate RFI on dual-eligible beneficiaries (01/23)