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) . 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.