Alerts

• 2-23-10 Coalition Letter on Tort Reform
• President Obama’s healthcare reform proposal
• 02-19-10 American College of Surgeons Letter to Obama
• 02-19-10 Alliance of Specialty Medicine Letter to Obama
• AMA/AARP SGR Letter to Congress
• AUA Comments to MedPAC on In-Office Imaging
• Broad Coalition Opposing IPAB
• Broad Coalition Supporting Inclusion of Specter Amendment
• Alliance Letter to Conferees
• MedPAC Discussion of Physician Payment Adequacy on December 10, 2009
• CMS Comment Letter – 2010 Physician Fee Schedule 12-28-09
• CMS Comment Letter – 2010 ASC Rule 12-22-09
• 12-17-09 Neal IPAB Letter to Pelosi
• LCA US Court of Appeals Opinion – 12-22-09
• AUA Fights Practice Expense Cuts under Fee Schedule Rule—Urology Slated for 3 Percent Cut in 2010
• Coalition Letter – Specter Amendment – Delay the Elimination of Consult Codes
• Alliance Letter – Opposition to Warner Amendment
• Alliance Letter – Support of Shaheen-Markley CER Amendment
• Alliance of Specialty Medicine Opposes Senate Bill
• AUA/American College of Surgeons Opposition to Senate Bill
• Opposition to Cosmetic Surgery Tax in Senate Bill
• MedPAC Discussion of the In-Office Ancillary Exception to the Stark Laws on October 8, 2009
• American College of Surgeons' Letter to Senate (11/04/09)
• ACS Letter to House
  ACS Letter on Senate Finance Committee Amendments
  ACS Letter Addressing Senate Finance Committee Healthcare Reform Bill
• Alliance Letter to Finance Committee on IMAC
  Alliance Letter to Finance Committee on SGR
  Alliance Letter to Finance Committee on Medical Liability Reform
  Alliance Letter to Finance Committee on Value-Based Purchasing
• Surgeons and Healthcare Reform Document
• ACS Letter to the House on Medical Liability Reform (AUA co-signed)
  ACS Letter to the Senate on Medical Liability Reform (AUA co-signed)
• Preliminary Framework on Senate Finance Healthcare Reform Bill
• AUA Comment Letter to CMS on Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for CY 2010
  AUA Comment Letter to CMS on HOPPS/ASC Rule for CY 2010
  AUA Talking Points on Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for CY 2010
• August Recess Visits
• AUA has NOT Endorsed House Tri-Committee Bill
• New Amendments to the Tri-Committee Bill
• Letter to Senator Cooper Opposing Expanded Powers for MedPAC
  Letter to Senator Rockefeller Opposing Expanded Powers for MedPAC
• Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Released for Comment
• AUA Offers Support for Patient-Center Outcomes Research Act of 2009
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Seeking Comments to Research Guidelines
• AUA Supports AMA Principles on Healthcare Reform
• AUA Health Policy Chair Steven Schlossberg, MD, Testifies Before Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
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• AUA Statement to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Legislative Update: AUA Kicks off 2009 with a Brilliant Start
  Association Helps Prevent Ban on Physician-Owned Hospitals
• Congress Averts Physician Pay Cut for Six Months, Medicare Participation Deadline Extended until February 15
• CMS Delays Revised Anti-markup Provisions
• Anti-markup Sample Comment Letter
• Congress Once Again Stops Physician Medicare Payment Cut (12/06)
• CMS to Use AUA Practice Expense Data to Calculate 2007 Medicare Physician Fees (11/06)
• Join with physicians around the country to tell Congress to stop the SGR cut! (09/06)
• Medicare Cut Caught in Congressional Power Play (01/06)
• Please Ask Your Representative to Support HR 3617 Today! (01/06)