“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 made through Medicare’s Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), “[have] been the fastest growing sector of Medicare payments out of […]
Following approval of the Cigna / Express Scripts merger, AAPS took the opportunity to remind the Department of Justice why the proposed merger of CVS and Aetna is bad medicine. September 21, 2018 The Honorable Jeff Sessions Attorney General of the United States United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530-0001 […]
More than 200 physicians attended a Direct Primary Care Summit sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the energy in the room was palpable, writes Albert Fisher, M.D., in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Fisher, a family physician in Oshkosh, Wis., is president of the […]
Website: www.aapsonline.org Cause/goals/mission Preserve and promote the practice of private medicine Defend the constitutional rights of patients and physicians The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons – AAPS – is a non-partisan professional association of physicians in all types of practices and specialties across the country. Since 1943, AAPS has been dedicated to the highest […]
The answers to AAPS Single Payer IQ Test™ questions and relevant “take-home lessons,” are now available as a handy one-page (double-sided) study guide, to educate patients, friends, family, and voters who are hearing more about single-payer and Medicare-for-All during the midterm campaign season. The guide is available as a PDF download here: http://aapsonline.org/single-payer-iq-study-guide.pdf or simply click […]
Volume 74, no. 9 September 2018 A photograph of carriers of professionally made “I Am a Health Care Voter” signs heads a Forbes article about the most important mid-term elections “in our lifetime” or even “our country’s history” (https://tinyurl.com/y8xl6s75). There are also T-shirts and a Twitter hashtag. The HCVs appear to be mostly young, aggrieved, […]
On September 6, 2018 AAPS filed an amicus brief in support of Dr. Courtney Morgan’s legal challenge against of improper seizure of patient records by the Texas Medical Board. Earlier this year, Dr. Morgan won a victory when a U.S. District Court denied the board’s motion to dismiss the challenge and ruled that the board […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD During the Supreme Court oral arguments in the challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s mandate to purchase health insurance, people laughed when the late Justice Scalia asked whether the government could make you buy broccoli. Never happen? The laughable has become reality. A California bill awaiting the governor’s signature […]
Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Georgia, and now South Carolina have passed laws intending to limit licensing boards, hospitals and insurers from requiring the MOC program that is promoted by ABMS and its affiliated specialty societies. Seven more states have taken the partial step of prohibiting MOC requirements as a condition of licensure, and seventeen states have […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. “Medicare-for-all” medicine is the ultimate goal of progressives or “liberals,” fully embraced by Democrat candidates in the midterms. Candidates claim “single-payer” government-run medicine will “solve” all the problems of Obamacare and our “broken,” purportedly free-market system. Liberal proposals ignore or deny the massive cost burden to taxpayers of “free healthcare,” […]