Legislative
Overview NAACOS aims to create and maintain the most beneficial legislative environment for ACOs. This is accomplished through constant communication, education, and advocacy with lawmakers and their staff. Congressional briefings, hearings, letters and in-person meetings are tools to share the positions of NAACOS and our members.
116th Congress
- NAACOS webinar discusses the November 2018 election results

115th Congress
· House Members Write CMS Supporting Additional Track 1 Agreement Period
· NAACOS submits comments to Ways & Means on MACRA Implementation
· NAACOS Statement on Regulatory Reform for House Ways & Means Committee
· Part 2 Partnership sends letter to Senate Finance Committee supporting S. 1850
· NAACOS endorses expansion of telehealth services
· ACO Provisions in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018
· NAACOS joins the Partnership to Amend 42 CFR Part 2 coalition
· Joint press release for “The ACO Improvement Act of 2017”
· Five leading healthcare groups endorse the ACO Improvement Act of 2017
o NAACOS, AMGA, MGMA and Premier Letter
o AMA Letter
· Medical Expense Deduction Coalition Letter, November 2017
· NAACOS signs on to letter supporting the Preventative Health Savings Act
· NAACOS Statement for the Record to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee on Medicare Advantage Hearing on Promoting Integrated and Coordinate Care for Medicare Beneficiaries
· Improving ACOs in 2017: NAACOS Advocacy Agenda
· CONNECT for Care Act of 2017
114th Congress
· NAACOS thanks Ways and Means leadership for support of access to mental and behavioral health data
· NAACOS endorses S. 2873, the ECHO act.pdf advancing communication between primary care providers and specialists
· NAACOS' Advanced Payment Model (APM) Talking Points
· NAACOS submits comments on the Senate Finance Committee's Bipartisan Chronic Care Working Group Policy Options Document
· NAACOS letter to the Senate Finance Committee on ACOs positively impacting chronic care management
· Ways & Means members Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) submit letter to CMS in support of the MSSP program.
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