Arbitrary Cuts for Lifesaving Brain Cancer Treatment Jeopardize Patient Access to Critical Therapy
On April 2, 2013, President Obama announced the new Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, or BRAIN, initiative. Yet even as he did this, patients suffering from brain cancer and other brain disorders may lose access to a vital therapy due to significant Medicare payment reductions. Tucked away in section 634 of the “fiscal cliff” […]
Congress Passes Bill to Stave-off Fiscal Cliff and Delays Medicare Physician Pay Cuts
By now most everyone knows that on Jan. 1, 2013 (in the middle of the night), Congress passed H.R. 8, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. The legislation includes a mix of tax measures and healthcare provisions. President Obama signed the bill into law on Jan. 2, 2013. The Senate passed the measure by […]
Going Over the Fiscal Cliff will Hurt Patients
Today, Roll Call Newspaper (Capitol Hill’s paper of record) published a Guest Opinion piece featuring the Alliance of Specialty Medicine and our own Alex Valadka, the Alliance’s spokesperson and chair of the AANS/CNS Washington Committee. The article, “Doctors: We Gave at the Office, and Then Some” addresses the idea that preventing the pending SGR cuts […]