Dear AAPS members and friends, Record attendance at our AAPS annual conference capped a year of achievement, as AAPS protects and promotes private medicine. With your support we will achieve even more in 2015. An […]
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. The developing White House economic narrative touts “the strongest economic growth in a decade.” But according to econometrician John Williams of ShadowStats.com, we […]
By Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD @MSingletonMDJD Among the bills presented by the House Energy and Commerce Committee recently signed into law on December 18, 2014 are: EARLY Act Reauthorization of 2014, HR 5185 reauthorize through […]
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. Obama has come up with the 95% solution to make reenrollment figures look good: A senior federal official told CNBC that an estimated […]
The President’s unilateral delay of the employer mandate is about over, and businesses with 50 or more full-time employees will have to start filing detailed reports with the IRS in January 2015, notes the Association […]
Gov. Peter Shumlin announced that he will not pursue a single payer health care plan this legislative session or in the near future, expressing “huge disappointment.” The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) applauds […]
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. Like the Affordable Care Act, the 1,600-page “CRomnibus” was rammed through the House in a hasty secret process. Members received the wording a […]
In choosing a state in which to set up a practice, physicians should study tax and regulatory policy, writes third-year family medicine resident Philip Eskew, D.O., J.D., M.B.A. The winter issue of the Journal of […]
In the Dec 9 hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee brilliant MIT economist Jonathan Gruber and CMS head Marilyn Tavenner both displayed memory loss and lack of knowledge of key numbers. Both […]
Synopsis courtesy of Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD @MSingletonMDJD A Bipartisan Bill to Prevent Medicare Fraud, the Protecting the Integrity of Medicare Act (PIMA) of 2014, has been Introduced by House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee […]
