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Neurosurgery Urges CMS to Ban Step Therapy

Last updated: August 13, 2024

The Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure AdministratorCenters for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesDepartment of Health and Human Services7500 Security BoulevardBaltimore, MD 21244-1850 Via Electronic Delivery Re: Step Therapy for Part B Drugs in […]

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AANS/CNS and HCLA Send Letter to Congress Urging For Inclusion of Medical Liability Reform in Debt Proposals

Last updated: May 20, 2025

Dear Speaker Boehner: We, as members of the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA), request that you includecomprehensive medical liability reforms in any proposal to address our nation’s debt […]

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Letter to Senator Murkowski discussing the Medicare Patient Empowerment Act

Last updated: May 21, 2025

RE: Support of S. 236, the “Medicare Patient Empowerment Act” Dear Senator Murkowski: As the Alliance of Specialty Medicine (Alliance), our mission is to advocate for soundfederal health care policy […]

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AANS/CNS Send Letter to OMB Regarding Pediatric Subspecialty Loan Repayment

Last updated: May 20, 2025

Dear Mr. Zients: On behalf of organizations dedicated to improving the health and well-being of children andadolescents, we write to you thank you for the Administration’s previous support for the […]

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Neurosurgery Joins the HCLA to Send a LTE to the WSJ on Defensive Medicine

Last updated: May 20, 2025

Dear Editor: There is widespread agreement that our medical liability system is broken(“Defensive Medicine May be Costlier than it Seems,” by Amitabh Chandra,Anupam B. Jena And Seth A. Seabury, February […]

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Neurosurgery Sends LTE to the WSJ on IPAB

Last updated: May 20, 2025

Dear Editor: In the June 20 op-ed on p. A-21 by David Rivkin and Elizabeth Foley, “An ObamaCare BoardAnswerable to No One,” the authors hit the nail on the head […]

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A letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Comments

Last updated: May 27, 2025

Re: CMS-1590-FC Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies Under the PhysicianFee Schedule, DME Face to Face Encounters, Elimination of the Requirement forTermination of Non-Random Prepayment Complex Medical Review and Other […]

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AANS/CNS Sequester Letter to the U.S. House

Last updated: May 20, 2025

Dear Speaker Boehner and Representative Pelosi: The undersigned medical organizations, together representing the vast majority ofpracticing physicians and medical students in the United States, strongly urge Congressto develop and pass […]

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AANS/CNS ICD-10 Letter

Last updated: May 20, 2025

Dear Acting Administrator Tavenner: The undersigned organizations appreciate the Obama administration’s decision to delay theimplementation of ICD-10 by one year to October 1, 2014. As you are aware, the AmericanMedical […]

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Neurosurgery Testimony to IOM GME Committee

Last updated: May 20, 2025

Statementof theAmerican Association of Neurological SurgeonsAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryCongress of Neurological SurgeonsSociety of Neurological Surgeonsbefore theInstitute of MedicineOn the Subject ofEnsuring an Adequate Neurosurgical Workforcefor the 21st Century Ensuring […]

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