WASHINGTON — A new health care advocacy group, which will represent the shrinking number of independent doctors in America, is launching Wednesday with an ambitious policy agenda.
IndeMed, which expects to represent nearly 70,000 members at its launch, will take on a host of issues important to doctors wanting to resist the wave of consolidation in recent years, its leaders told STAT. The group’s agenda includes reducing the burden of prior authorization, promoting transparent and fair reimbursement from payers, encouraging new practice models, fighting consolidation, and reforming the No Surprises Act.
The group, through its nonprofit and associated political action committee, will push for changes in Washington as well as in states, and plans to offer members a state-by-state advocacy playbook.
