-- Decision-making guided by evidence-based medicine and clinical decision support tools.
-- Physician accountability for continuous quality improvement through voluntary participation in performance measurement.
-- Active patient participation in decision-making, patient personal responsibility for diet and lifestyle, and collection of patient feedback.
-- Utilization of health information technology to support optimal patient care.
-- Patients and families participating in quality improvement at the practice level.
"ACP is delighted Rep. Burgess is continuing his interest and help in improving America's healthcare system," continued Dr. Dale. "He and Rep. Cuellar are to be commended for addressing the critical need to have a strong foundation of primary care and generalist physicians to meet the needs of an aging population with more chronic diseases and to support a new model of delivering care-the patient-centered medical home-that will result in better outcomes for patients and more efficient use of resources."

Rep. Burgess today also introduced two other bills, one that would create a pathway to eliminating Medicare cuts from the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) Formula and another that would provide grants to new primary care residency programs. ACP looks forward to working with Rep. Burgess and other members of Congress on legislation that would lead to repeal of the SGR-- while providing positive, predictable and stable payments during the transition years to repeal -- and on the most effective approaches to support training programs in primary care.

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