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Senate Members Urge Leaders to Prevent Medicare Payment Cuts

Last updated: November 26, 2024

Dear Majority Leader Schumer and Minority Leader McConnell: We write to request that you urgently address the 2.8 percent cut to Medicare payments that will go into effect on January […]

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Neurosurgery Supports Funding for BRAIN Initiative and All of Us Research Program

Last updated: December 12, 2024

Dear Chair Baldwin, Ranking Member Capito, Chair Aderholt, and Ranking Member DeLauro, We, the undersigned organizations, are writing to express our strong support for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]

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Neurosurgery Joins Medical Societies to Urge Congress to Protect Medicare Patients and Physician Practices Before Year-End

Last updated: November 26, 2024

Dear Speaker Johnson, Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader Jeffries: The undersigned national medical societies and state medical associations write to urgently request that Congress pass legislation […]

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Alliance of Specialty Medicine Supports H.R. 10073: The Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2024

Last updated: November 20, 2024

Re: Support of H.R. 10073, the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2024 Dear Representatives Murphy, Panetta, Miller-Meeks, Bera, Bucshon, Ruiz, Joyce, and Schrier: As patient and physician […]

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Alliance of Specialty Medicine Expresses Support for H.R. 10073 to Prevent Medicare Physician Fee Cuts and Ensure Financial Stability

Last updated: November 20, 2024

RE: Physician Payment Reform Outline Dear Chair Rodgers and Chair Guthrie: The Alliance of Specialty Medicine (the “Alliance”) represents more than 100,000 specialty physicians and surgeons across 16 specialty and […]

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Alliance of Specialty Medicine Calls on Congress to Address Impacts of the Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act (S.2305)

Last updated: November 8, 2024

RE: The Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act (S.2305) Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, Minority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader Jeffries: The Alliance of Specialty Medicine (Alliance) is a coalition […]

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House Members Urge Leaders to Prevent Medicare Payment Cuts

Last updated: October 15, 2024

Dear Speaker Johnson and Minority Leader Jeffries: The undersigned bipartisan members of Congress write to urge you to expeditiously pass legislative fixes that not only stop another damaging round of […]

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Neurosurgery Joins Letter to Humana Regarding Coverage for Closed Loop Spinal Cord Neurostimulators

Last updated: October 28, 2024

October 9, 2024Manisha Dhuria, MD, MBA, CPEAssociate VP, Physician Leadership, Humanamdhuria@humana.comDear Dr. Dhuria, We are writing on behalf of the more than 95,000 members our undersigned societies represent. Our members […]

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Neurosurgery Comments on HTI-2 Proposed Rule

Last updated: October 16, 2024

Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPPNational CoordinatorAssistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health InformationTechnologyU.S. Department of Health and Human Services330 C Street, SW, 7th FloorWashington, DC 20024 Submitted […]

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AANS and CNS Supports The Access to Claims Data Act of 2024

Last updated: November 5, 2024

Dear Representatives Bucshon, Schrier, and Kilmer, The undersigned organizations would like to thank you for your leadership in sponsoring the Access to Claims Data Act of 2024. This bipartisan legislation […]

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