Graduate Medical Education
An appropriate supply of well‐educated and trained physicians is an essential element to ensure access to quality health care services for all Americans. Unfortunately, the nation is facing a serious shortage of physicians, particularly as baby boomers age. And while medical schools in the U.S. have increased their enrollments, and additional medical and osteopathic schools have been established, the number of Medicare-funded resident positions has been capped by law. The solution for increasing physician numbers involves not only increasing medical-student class size and the number of medical schools but also increasing the number of funded residency positions. All payors of health care — including the federal government, states and private payors — benefit from graduate medical education. To ensure an adequate supply of physicians, organized neurosurgery continues to petition Congress to maintain Medicare’s current financial support of graduate medical education and encourage all other payers to contribute to graduate medical education (GME) programs.
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Letters
Published: October 12, 2017
Dear Chairman Burgess and Ranking Member Green: On behalf of organizations dedicated to improving the health and well-being of children andadolescents, we write to urge you to include support for […]
Letters
SUBJECT: H.R. 2267 Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act Dear Representatives Crowley and Costello, On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of NeurologicalSurgeons, we are writing to […]
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SUBJECT: S. 1301, Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act Dear Senators Nelson, Heller and Schumer, On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of NeurologicalSurgeons, we are writing […]
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SUBJECT: H.R. 2373, Medical Residency Training Accreditation Dear Representatives Kelly and Buchanan, On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and Congress of NeurologicalSurgeons (CNS), we are writing […]
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Dear Senator Cassidy and Senator Collins, As the authors of the Patient Freedom Act (S. 191) and as leaders in developing patient-focused health care policy,the Alliance of Specialty Medicine writes […]
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Dear Mr. Chairman, Thank you for inviting the Alliance of Specialty Medicine to provide comments and recommendations related tothe Senate Finance Committee’s effort to produce patient-focused health care legislation. The […]
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SUBJECT: Health Care Reform Dear Chairman Hatch: On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and Congress of NeurologicalSurgeons (CNS), we are writing to offer our thoughts on […]
Article
Published: January 1, 2017
OverviewAn appropriate supply of well-educated and trained physicians — both in specialty and primary care — isessential to ensure access to quality health care services for all Americans. Unfortunately, the […]
