Take Action:
Protect Your Patients and Your Profession
Participate
Visit the state and federal legislative action centers (linked above) to learn about the College’s position on pertinent issues and how to contact your legislators. Let your state and federal senators and representatives know how the decisions they make will impact your profession and the patients who depend on you.
Learn
Advocacy Summit
The First Annual Advocacy Summit will take place March 26-27, 2012 at the J.W. Marriott in Washington, DC. The Summit will provide Fellows with advocacy training, in-depth issue briefings, and culminates in hundreds of surgeons blanketing Capitol Hill to meet with their members of Congress to advocate for issues such as the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), liability reform, and many others.
Coding Workshops
The ACS Coding Workshops are designed to help general surgeons and their staff learn coding skills while earning continuing education credits. The first day will help surgeons and staff more accurately, confidently, and consistently code for evaluation and management services. The second day is designed for surgeons and staff with solid coding experience.
ACS Advocacy and Health Policy Resources:
- EHR Incentive Bonus
- CMS Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)
- Medicare Participation Options
- Socio-Economic Fact Center for Surgery
- Medical Liability Reform
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (90K PDF)
- ACS comments on the proposed regulations for Inpatient Prospective Payment in FY 2009 (CMS-1390-P) (430K PDF)
- ACS Supports Stabenow Medicare Physician Payment Bill (495K PDF)
- American College of Surgeons and AMA Conducting Physician Practice
- Information Survey
- Current Activities
- Publications on Socioeconomic Issues
Revised December 28, 2011