AAPS News – May 2007
Volume 63, No. 5 May 2007 MANAGING DOCTORS Trying to address coverage and cost problems simultaneously is like “driving a stick shift car working accelerator and clutch together, to avoid either stalling or racing the […]
AAPS News – Mar 2007
Volume 63, No. 3 March 2007 “HANDS OFF OUR KIDS” Until now, most parents have accepted incremental government intrusions into family life and medical decision-making. But Governor Rick Perry of Texas crossed the line, igniting […]
AAPS News – Jan 2007
Volume 63, No. 1 January 2007 LINKAGE: EBM, EMR, P4P Physicians are not against science, or medicine based on evidence. Nor do they oppose technology, progress, efficiency, or knowledge of patients’ history and the medical […]
AAPS News – Nov 2006
Volume 62, No. 11 November 2006 QUALITY OR DEATH It is hard to be opposed to “quality” in housing, in physicians, in medical care, or in life. When people demand “universal access” to care, it […]
RESOLUTION 63-01, 2006: Voluntary Health Insurance
Submitted by Mark Schiller, M.D. WHEREAS: patients should have the freedom to choose their medical treatment, and the manner in which they pay for that treatment; WHEREAS: many patients choose to remain uninsured because of […]
RESOLUTION 63-02, 2006: Health Information Technology
Submitted by Mark Schiller, M.D. WHEREAS: health information technology (HIT) is still in development and systems are rapidly changing; WHEREAS: a physician should be allowed to choose the technologies, whether for clinical or administrative applications, […]
RESOLUTION 63-03, 2006: On Narcotic Drug Recycling
AAPS General Assembly, September 2006 Submitted by Mark Schiller, M.D. WHEREAS: the Drug Enforcement Agency prohibits recycling of narcotics, and licensed facilities and individuals are forced to dispose of narcotics by either flushing or sending […]
RESOLUTION 63-04, 2006: Direct Insurance Payment to Policyholder
AAPS General Assembly, September 2006 Submitted by Mark Schiller, M.D. WHEREAS: physicians and their staff divert a great of time and expense to processing insurance claims rather than to the practice of medicine; WHEREAS: physicians […]
RESOLUTION 63-05, 2006: Physician Pricing Transparency
AAPS General Assembly, September 2006 Submitted by Mark Schiller, M.D. WHEREAS: patients frequently are aware only of the cost of an insurance company or health plan co-pay, or the government or private third-party reimbursement rate […]
RESOLUTION 63-06, 2006: State Pricing Transparency
AAPS General Assembly, September 2006 Submitted by Mark Schiller, M.D. WHEREAS: in many states, the state government is the largest consumer and purchaser of medical services and health insurance; WHEREAS: state-purchased medical plans and services, […]
