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Protecting the Integrated Model of Care

High-quality, integrated care delivered in the independent medical practice setting is worthy of protection as an alternative to care that is often more costly when furnished in the hospital setting. Read more...

Saving the In Office Ancillary Service Exception (IOASE)

Integrated models of care allow for better coordination across specialties, translating into higher quality, lower cost and more accessible care for patients. Read more...

Pathology Services Utilization

Recent data, including 2009-2013 Medicare data relating to the cost and utilization of anatomic pathology (AP) services, demonstrates that the GAO report fails to tell the full story about cost and utilization. Read more...


Recent Advocacy

September 10, 2018

DHPA Joins Coalition Opposing Payment Proposals in MPFS FY2019

DHPA joined the Patient-Centered Evaluation and Management Services Coalition in sending a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Congressional leadership supporting CMS’s proposed simplification of documentation requirements and opposing implementation of proposed payment changes in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for Calendar Year 2019. In the letters, the Coalition […]
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Filed Under: Advocacy, Letters to Policymakers, Newsroom, Press Releases, Protecting Patient Access to Integrated GI Care in the Independent Setting, Resources

August 24, 2018

DHPA Submits Comments on CMS Request for Information on the Stark Law

The Digestive Health Physicians Association has submitted a comment letter in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Request for Information on the Physician Self-Referral (Stark) law. DHPA is committed to ensuring that independent GI practices across the country can participate in alternative payment models (APMs) and other novel financial arrangements that deliver […]
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Filed Under: Advocacy, Letters to Policymakers, Modernizing the Stark Law, Newsroom, Protecting Patient Access to Integrated GI Care in the Independent Setting, Resources

July 16, 2018

DHPA Submits Comments in Response to HHS RFI on “Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs”

DHPA has submitted comments to the U.S. Health and Human Services Request for Information entitled “Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs.” In the comment letter, DHPA focuses on several of the key initiatives highlighted in the RFI: DHPA supports site neutrality for physician-administered drugs across the hospital and independent physician practice settings […]
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Filed Under: Letters to Policymakers, Newsroom, Press Releases, Protecting Patient Access to Integrated GI Care in the Independent Setting

July 16, 2018

DHPA Urges Administration to Reject Proposals That Could Impact Access and Affordability for Part B Medications

DHPA joined with 215 advocacy groups to voice concern about Medicare Part B proposals outlined in President Trump’s Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs and corresponding Request for Information (RFI) that could have harmful consequences for patients with serious diseases. In a letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar, the groups wrote, “As […]
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Filed Under: Letters to Policymakers, Newsroom, Press Releases, Protecting Patient Access to Integrated GI Care in the Independent Setting

March 14, 2018

Medicare Care Coordination Improvement Act of 2017 (H.R. 4206, S. 2051)

DHPA strongly supports the Medicare Care Coordination Improvement Act of 2017 (H.R. 4206, S. 2051), which promotes care coordination and will enable physicians to participate more fully in the value-based payment models incentivized by the bipartisan Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) (Pub. L. 114-10, enacted April 16, 2015). H.R. 4206, was […]
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Filed Under: Advocacy, Fact Sheets, Modernizing the Stark Law, Protecting Patient Access to Integrated GI Care in the Independent Setting, Resources

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Member Spotlight

Adult Gastroenterology Associates is a single-specialty GI and hepatology practice serving Tulsa and much of Northeastern Oklahoma, with physicians who specialize in colon cancer screening, treatment of GERD, IBD, and treatment of diseases of the liver and pancreas.

Learn more at:
www.tulsagastro.com

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    Is your practice interested in promoting and preserving accessible, high quality and cost-efficient care in the independent GI medical setting? Contact us today about joining DHPA.

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