Advocacy to Improve Physician Payment

The Endocrine Society advocates to increase physician payment to recognize the value endocrinologists bring to the health care system.  

• Averting Medicare Cuts: Endocrine Society advocacy resulted in averting significant Medicare physician payment cuts in 2023 and 2024. We continue to call on Congress to improve the Medicare physician payment system.
• Improving Coverage and Coding: Endocrine Society advocacy includes representation at the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Update Committee and Advisors to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Committee. Chase Hendrickson, MD, MPH, Sandhya Chhabra, MD, Allan Glass, MD, and Ricardo Correa, MD represent the Endocrine at the RUC and CPT.  We are the only endocrine organization that participates.
• Expanding Access to Telehealth: Endocrine Society successfully advocated for a two-year extension of the telehealth waivers put in place during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency ensuring that our members can provide care to patients via telehealth.
• Telehealth Policy Perspective Paper: the Society published a telehealth policy perspective in JCEM which provides guidance to Endocrine Society members on the appropriate use of telehealth in endocrinology.