The opioid overdose crisis has sparked a lot of legislation, most aimed at restricting prescriptions for legal drugs. But while prescriptions diminish, the death toll rises, mostly because of illegal fentanyl. Some have stated that […]
Both Democrats and Republicans are promising to preserve the Affordable Care Act’s popular “consumer protection” of people with pre-existing conditions. This is called guaranteed issue and community rating. Insurers cannot decline coverage, nor can they […]
AAPS is tracking MOC legislation as it moves though state legislatures. Visit our tracking document at https://goo.gl/fnS22T
Medicaid expansion is on the November ballot in a number of states that have sizable rural populations, including Nebraska, Idaho, and Utah, as reported in AMA Morning Rounds for Sept 26. One rationale is that […]
Printable PDF available at: http://www.jpands.org/vol21no2/schlafly.pdf By Andrew L. Schlafly, Esq., “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime” is a famous saying from the communist Soviet Union, where prosecutions of innocent people, and over-prosecutions […]
Dear Senators, We write today in opposition to the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act, S. 693 and the companion bill, H.R. 1676, passed by the House and now before the Senate HELP Committee. […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Our legislators have been at their worst over the Supreme Court confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. What a shameful display: condescending, arrogant show-boating senators questioning him in a manner […]
September 24, 2018 Dear Administrator Verma, We appreciate this opportunity to comment on the “Proposed Changes to Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs” for 2019 as proposed […]
“Differences in payment rates have unnecessarily shifted services away from the physician’s office to the higher paying hospital outpatient department,” admits CMS in the proposed 2019 rule for Medicare outpatient payment. CMS further reveals that payments […]
[To read letter letter, scroll down or see https://goo.gl/56EqdK for PDF version.] Following Department of Justice approval of the Cigna / Express Scripts merger, AAPS took the opportunity to remind the DOJ why the proposed […]
