Letters

Letters

AANS/CNS Statement to FDA Neurological Devices Panel on Neurostimulation for Epilepsy

Last updated: May 21, 2025

RE: Consideration of Neurostimulation for Epilepsy, FDA Neurological Devices Panel Meeting,February 22, 2013 Dear Dr. Krauthamer: The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of NeurologicalSurgeons (CNS) appreciate […]

• Drugs and Devices

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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 […]

• Reimbursement and Practice Management

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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 […]

• Medical Liability Reform

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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 […]

• Drugs and Devices
• Emergency/Trauma Care and Stroke
• Graduate Medical Education

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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 […]

• Graduate Medical Education

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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 […]

• Medical Liability Reform

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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 […]

• Medical Liability Reform

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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 […]

• Reimbursement and Practice Management

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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 […]

• Reimbursement and Practice Management