Foster Care Transformation and Optimization

Ensuring patients receive high-quality and continuous care that keeps up with new technologies is essential for better health outcomes. The ACC suggests several actions to help achieve this goal:

  • Simplify electronic prior authorization processes to reduce patient care delays.
  • Make telehealth services more accessible by maintaining flexibilities made available during the pandemic.
  • Create incentives that work across different specialties and health care providers.
  • Encourage innovative approaches to care delivery through effective ambulatory and virtual specialty care and support the balanced regulation of artificial intelligence technologies.

ACC in Action

  • The College is an active member of the Regulatory Relief Coalition, working with partner cardiovascular societies and other stakeholders to advance solutions to prior authorization and other administrative burdens.
  • Sweeping grassroots support from ACC members ushered in a significant victory when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule in early 2024, tightening timelines, increasing transparency and streamlining electronic prior authorization requests.
  • The ACC voiced its support for legislation to streamline and modernize prior authorization processes in Medicare Advantage.

Policy Progress

  • The Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act garnered majority bipartisan support last Congress. It would make permanent the regulatory action taken by CMS in the Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule.
  • The Sustainable Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Services in the Home Act (H.R. 783) would allow the furnishing of cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services via telehealth at a patient’s home under Medicare.

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