After both Houses of Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill touted as averting a 21 percent cut in payments to physicians, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued the following statement: “At the last moment […]

This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane M. Orient, MD The payment methodology in H.R. 2, though averting immediate severe cuts, is still a system of price controls. The “updates” over the next […]

Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recently-introduced healthcare-related bills. Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate Repeal and (Dreadful) Replacement The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), H.R. 2, authored by Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX). This […]

On April 3, 2015 AAPS submitted the below comments to the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC) in opposition to the proposed National Patient Tracking System, which will interlink patients’ private […]

April 15 is the deadline for the Senate to act on the “doc fix”—the Boehner-Pelosi bill, HR 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). CMS is holding Medicare claims until then, which is […]

Before leaving for recess, the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill that repeals the 21 percent Medicare fee cut dictated by the Clinton-Gingrich “sustainable growth rate” (SGR), and replaces it with something far worse […]