AAFP, Other Physician Groups Deliver Unified SGR Message to Capitol Hill

In a dramatic show of unity, AAFP leaders joined with their colleagues from other physician specialty organizations in pressing House and Senate members for a permanent Medicare payment solution during a series of Jan. 31 meetings on Capitol Hill. AAFP Board Chair Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A., of Waco, Texas, and AAFP President-elect Jeffrey Cain, M.D., of Denver, along with representatives from the American College of Physicians, the American Osteopathic Association, and the American College of Surgeons, met with several key Republican and Democratic members of the House and Senate to push for a repeal of the sustainable growth rate formula.