Hot Topics in Public Health
MSDC Member Spotlight Series
Join the DC FMAP Sign-On Letter
Congress is considering reducing the DC FMAP from 70% to 50% (or lower). Some of the likely consequences include:
- Cuts to health care professional training programs, including residencies.
- Reduced reimbursement for all providers.
- Staff reductions at hospitals and health systems.
- Longer wait times at hospitals.
- Closures of healthcare facilities.
All physicians, regardless of practice type, will be impacted by this reduction. MSDC is circulating a physician sign-on letter that we are sending to physician members of Congress asking them to oppose these changes. Our hope is that your peers will understand how these changes could impact medicine locally, even their offices.
The text of the letter is below and on the sign-up form.
The deadline to sign the letter is May 3 by 12 PM ET. That will allow us to deliver the letter to the members' offices ASAP.
May 2, 2025
Dear fellow physician and Representative,
We, the undersigned physicians who practice and/or are licensed to practice in the District, express our strong opposition to any changes to the District of Columbia’s Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) as part of the reconciliation process. The reduction in Medicaid revenue for health care providers and health systems in the District would have a ripple effect throughout the entire health system, crippling access to care for not only Medicaid beneficiaries but also all those who live, work, and visit the District of Columbia, including Members of Congress and their staffs.
As a fellow physician, you know that major changes to patient coverage lead to unintended consequences for the entire health system. Changing the FMAP for the District will have regional impacts in care and endanger access to healthcare for everyone in the District, including visitors and workers who live elsewhere. Reducing the FMAP would equate to a 40% cut in funding directly impacting health care professionals and likely would mean reductions in the healthcare workforce, service cuts for all care, and a destabilization for training for healthcare providers of many different types. Everyone who utilizes healthcare in DC would be severely impacted by this change, regardless of if they are a DC resident.
We urge you as a colleague to consider the consequences of an FMAP change in the District and support excluding this change from reconciliation language.
Sincerely,
Public Health News
Join the DC FMAP Sign-On Letter
Congress is considering reducing the DC FMAP from 70% to 50% (or lower). Some of the likely consequences include:
- Cuts to health care professional training programs, including residencies.
- Reduced reimbursement for all providers.
- Staff reductions at hospitals and health systems.
- Longer wait times at hospitals.
- Closures of healthcare facilities.
All physicians, regardless of practice type, will be impacted by this reduction. MSDC is circulating a physician sign-on letter that we are sending to physician members of Congress asking them to oppose these changes. Our hope is that your peers will understand how these changes could impact medicine locally, even their offices.
The text of the letter is below and on the sign-up form.
The deadline to sign the letter is May 3 by 12 PM ET. That will allow us to deliver the letter to the members' offices ASAP.
May 2, 2025
Dear fellow physician and Representative,
We, the undersigned physicians who practice and/or are licensed to practice in the District, express our strong opposition to any changes to the District of Columbia’s Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) as part of the reconciliation process. The reduction in Medicaid revenue for health care providers and health systems in the District would have a ripple effect throughout the entire health system, crippling access to care for not only Medicaid beneficiaries but also all those who live, work, and visit the District of Columbia, including Members of Congress and their staffs.
As a fellow physician, you know that major changes to patient coverage lead to unintended consequences for the entire health system. Changing the FMAP for the District will have regional impacts in care and endanger access to healthcare for everyone in the District, including visitors and workers who live elsewhere. Reducing the FMAP would equate to a 40% cut in funding directly impacting health care professionals and likely would mean reductions in the healthcare workforce, service cuts for all care, and a destabilization for training for healthcare providers of many different types. Everyone who utilizes healthcare in DC would be severely impacted by this change, regardless of if they are a DC resident.
We urge you as a colleague to consider the consequences of an FMAP change in the District and support excluding this change from reconciliation language.
Sincerely,