Health Care Payment Committee

CHAIR: Eileen Brewer, MD
VICE CHAIR: Robert Kenney, MD

• Increase awareness and develop tools to assist members with negotiating contracts with payers.
• Promote reasonable compensation for nephrologists.
• Monitor and make recommendations in the area of physician payment.
• Review and recommend changes needed in CPT coding and the Medicare fee schedule.
• Maintain liaison with the AMA RUC and CPT advisory panels.
• Respond to RPA members’ concerns/problems related to physician payment.
• Develop a network of nephrology representatives on carrier advisory committees and implement and maintain mechanisms for frequent communication among this group.
• Develop a comprehensive program to assist RPA members at the regional/local level.