Washington, May 12 -- Congressman Vern Buchanan issued the following press release:
Today, Congressman Vern Buchanan, Vice Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and Chair of the Health Subcommittee, and Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), Chair of the Health Subcommittee on the Energy and Commerce Committee, led a letter (https://buchanan-admin.c3pot.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CMS-ACO-Letter-Buchanan-Griffith.pdf) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, asking him to continue strengthening Medicare program integrity while ensuring that accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other value-based care models are not unfairly harmed by fraudulent or inappropriate billing activity....