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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
AAPS General Assembly, September 2006 Submitted by Mark Schiller, M.D. WHEREAS: the federal government is the largest consumer and purchaser of medical services and health insurance; WHEREAS: federally-purchased medical plans and services, including Federal Employees […]
AAPS General Assembly, September 2006 Submitted by Robert Dolehide, M.D. and Chester Danehower, M.D. WHEREAS: there are many social, psychological, and health gains from abstaining from sexual activity outside of marriage; WHEREAS: abstinence is the […]
Volume 62, No. 9 September 2006 NONPAYMENT FOR NONCOMPLIANCE British patients with coronary artery disease or diabetes and blood pressure greater than 150/90 or 145/85, respectively, or with a stroke or TIAs and cholesterol greater […]
AAPS General Assembly, September 2006 Submitted by Gil Mileikowsky, M.D. WHEREAS: AAPS supports fair and unbiased peer review in the interest of improving the safety and quality of patient care, and; WHEREAS: the Health Care […]
