Letters to Policy Makers

Rheumatology advocacy involves several branches of government and various agencies. ACR advocates to Congress, federal agencies, and others by writing or signing on to various policy letters.

2023 Federal Advocacy Letters

ACR Joins Coalition Letter Urging Congress to Protect Access to Part B Treatments and Remove Providers from Drug Price Negotiation Processes – 5/30/2023

ACR Joins Coalition Letter Thanking Senate Leaders of the Safe Step Act for Introducing the Legislation to Create Guardrails for Step Therapy Protocols – 5/11/2023

ACR Joins Coalition Letter Thanking Senate Leaders of the Help Ensure Lower Patient Copays Act (HELP Copays Act) for Introducing the Legislation to Increase Access to Medications – 5/10/2023

ACR Joins Coalition Letter to Congress Endorsing The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act Which Would Fund 14,000 Additional Graduate Medical Education Training Positions Through Medicare – 5/8/2023

ACR Letter Addressing the High Prices of Drugs Covered under Medicare Part B – 5/5/2023

ACR Joins Letter to House Original Co-Sponsors of the Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act Thanking them for the Legislation Which Would Apply a Permanent Inflation-Based Update to the MPFS Conversion Factor – 5/3/2023

ACR Comments on IRA Drug Price Negotiation Guidance – 4/14/2023

ACR Joins 75+ Health Organizations Urging Congress to Support Permanent Protections for DACA Recipients – 3/21/2023

ACR Responds to the Senate Health, Education, Pension, & Labor Committee (HELP) Request for Information (RFI) on the Healthcare Workforce Shortage – 3/20/2023

ACR Joins Coalition Letter Asking for $60 million for the CDC Arthritis Research Program (additional letter also sent to Senate leadership) – 3/16/2023

ACR Joins AMA Letter Urging Congress to Provide Inflation-Based Physician Payment Updates based on the full Medicare Economic Index (MEI) – 3/15/2023

ACR Joins AMA Letter to Congressional Leadership Urging Congress to Update Medicare Physician Payments Annually Based on the full Medicare Economic Index (MEI) – 3/15/2023

ACR Joins Letter Thanking Congressional Champions for Reintroducing the “Resident Education Deferred Interest (REDI) Act” to Combat Medical Student Loan Debt – 3/9/2023

ACR Urges CMS to Revisit Copay Assistance Policy in Benefit of Payment and Parameters Proposed Rule – 1/25/2023

ACR Joins 103 Other Organizations to Urge the New Congress to Reform the Medicare Payment System – 1/23/2023