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Docket No. HHS-OCR-0945-AAOO February 11, 2019 Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on the “Request for Information on Modifying HIPAA Rules to Improve Coordinated Care” Docket No. HHS-OCR-0945-AAOO The Association of American Physicians […]
STATEMENT of Association of American Physicians and SurgeonsTo: The United States Senate Committee on Finance:Hearing on “Drug Pricing in America: A Prescription for Change, Part I” January 29, 2019 Thank you Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member […]
December 28, 2018 Dear Commissioner Rettig, Thank you for this opportunity to comment on the proposed rule, REG-136724-17, intended to expand options for how employees can utilize Health Reimbursement Arrangement funds. The Association of American […]
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon expressed concerns that he was being used as a “rubber stamp” and that the DOJ was only raising “anti-competitive concerns about one-tenth of one percent of this $69 billion […]
To: HHS Office of Inspector General: Comments in Response to OIG Request for Information, OIG-0803-N, Regarding Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and Beneficiary Inducements Civil Monetary Penalties (CMP) The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (“AAPS”) is […]
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. […]
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 […]
[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 […]
Submitted September 10, 2018 Comments on CMS-1693-P: Revisions to Payment Policies under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Quality Payment Program and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2019″ Dear Administrator Verma, We appreciate this […]
July 13, 2018 Comments in Response to Request for Information (RFI) on HHS Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs (CMS-2018-0075). Dear Secretary Azar: Thank you for this opportunity to submit comments in […]
