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Advocating to advance the future of healthcare  

ACLM leads strategic non-partisan efforts to make lifestyle medicine the standard of care for treating, reversing, and preventing chronic disease. We aim to reshape healthcare by addressing the levers that catalyze systemic change. Stay informed with updates on policy developments, advocacy opportunities, and ACLM’s work to advance lifestyle medicine nationwide.

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Our priority areas

Education

  • Reallocation of funding to train and equip medical students and residents in lifestyle medicine
  • Train current physician and health professional workforce in LM to support interprofessional team-based care in identifying and eradicating the root cause of disease
  • Create a “LM Education for America” Task Force

Payment Models

  • Develop new or modify existing models that reward improved outcomes, as well as health restoration achieved through disease remission/reversal
  • Develop new models that support interprofessional team-based care
  • Design CMMI demonstration project integrating LM care models
  • Value Based Care: remove unintended consequences of current disease management framework

Quality Measures

  • Develop new or refine existing measures that reward, rather than penalize, clinicians for improved outcomes, including disease remission/reversal
  • Develop new quality measures that incent and reward LM as the foundation of care, as recommended in nearly all chronic disease- and prevention-related clinical practice guidelines (CPGs)
  • Develop measures that assess and address lifestyle behaviors

Strength in partnerships

We collaborate with leading national coalitions and non-profits to ensure lifestyle medicine is taught early and often, is considered the foundation of care as cited in most clinical practice guidelines, is acknowledged and rewarded in quality measure frameworks, and provides effective payment for interprofessional teams.  

Position Statements

ACLM’s position statements guide our advocacy efforts to advance the integration and recognition of lifestyle medicine across healthcare.

  • Type 2 Diabetes Remission Position
  • Dietary position
  • Diet-climate position
  • Obesity position
  • Non-discrimination position

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Advocacy in action

Advocacy & Policy

A lifestyle medicine payment breakthrough in 2026

Lifestyle medicine is moving from the margins of the payment system into the mainstream architecture of federal healthcare transformation.

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Clinical & Community Integration

Transforming rural health through lifestyle medicine

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Military Health

Developing solutions to the lifestyle-related threat to U.S. national security

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Workforce Development

How ACLM members are promoting lifestyle medicine at the state level

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As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, ACLM is prohibited from engaging in certain types of political activities such as lobbying. However, we can provide education and insights to support decision-making on issues that impact the field of lifestyle medicine.

Media resources

For more information on ACLM’s priorities, relevant statistics, and other resources download our fast facts document or contact our PR Team.

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