Advocacy

Feb. 23, 2024 (ACP) — Advocacy by members of the American College of Physicians played a major role in pushing forward a landmark bill in New Jersey to update requirements and standards for the use of prior authorization by insurers.

“ACP members in New Jersey and our Health and Public Policy Committee were instrumental in passage of this legislation,” said Dr. Elizabeth Cerceo, an associate professor of medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and chair of the committee…

Ask your members of Congress to cosponsor H.R. 4942/S. 665, the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act, which allows states to sponsor foreign-trained physicians to work in medically underserved areas in exchange for a waiver of the physicians’ two-year foreign residence requirement.