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Joint Medicare Federation Letter
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 to both prevent the scheduled 2.83 percent Medicare physician …
Joint Letters, Medicare/Medicaid
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Joint Letter Urging Congress to Pass the Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act (S. 644/H.R. 1359)
Dear Speaker Johnson, Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader Jeffries, Minority Leader McConnell, Chair Rodgers, Ranking Member Pallone, Chair Jordan, Ranking Member Nadler, Chair Sanders, and Ranking Member Cassidy: The undersigned organizations, representing a broad base of stakeholders, wri …
Joint Letters, Other Issues
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Joint Letter on Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program (CSP)
Dear Chair Aderholt, Ranking Member DeLauro, Chair Baldwin, and Ranking Member Capito: The undersigned mental health, suicide prevention, substance use recovery, and patient advocacy organizations write to express our strong support for robust investment in the Comprehensive Suicide Prevention P …
Joint Letters, Other Issues
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AMA Federation Letter on MACRA Reform VI
Dear Speaker Johnson, Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader Jeffries: The undersigned national medical societies and state medical associations write to collectively urge Congress to prioritize and advance several key bills and legislative proposals that provide …
Joint Letters, Medicare/Medicaid
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Joint Opposition Letter on the Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act
Dear Speaker Johnson, Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader Jeffries: The undersigned physician organizations representing national and state medical societies write in opposition to H.R. 1770/S. 2477, the “Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act …
Joint Letters, Other Issues
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Joint EMS Response to Senate Finance on Drug Shortages
Dear Chairman Wyden and Ranking Member Crapo: Thank you for the opportunity to respond to your recent proposal to provide a long-term solution to drug shortages. We sincerely appreciate the efforts of this Committee, Congress and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to mitigate this arduo …
Joint Letters, Other Issues
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Joint Letter on Recent Medicare Physician Payment Cuts
Dear Speaker Johnson, Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell, and Leader Jeffries: The undersigned national medical organizations and state medical societies write to strongly urge Congress to quickly pass legislation to reverse the 3.37 percent Medicare physician payment cuts that took effect on Janu …
Joint Letters, Medicare/Medicaid
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Signed on Letter: 2024 Medicare Payment Cuts
Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McConnell, Speaker Johnson, and Minority Leader Jeffries:The undersigned national medical organizations and state medical societies write to strongly urge Congress to quickly pass legislation to stop another impending round of Medicare payment cuts. Abs …
Joint Letters, Medicare/Medicaid
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2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Coalition Letter
Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McConnell, Speaker Johnson, and Minority Leader Jeffries:On behalf of the 54 organizations representing physicians and other health care providers across the United States, we write to urge Congress to stop the 3.4% cut in Medicare physician payment tha …
EM Workforce, Joint Letters, Medicare/Medicaid
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CMS NSA Market Share Letter
Dear Deputy Administrator and Director Montz:As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), working on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services and together with the Departments of Labor and Treasury (collectively “the Departments”), continues to refine federal Independ …
AAEM Letters, Joint Letters, Medicare/Medicaid
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Joint Letter to Dr. Sreekanth Chaguturu on Recent Clinical Policy Bulletin
Dear Dr. Chaguturu, It has come to our attention that Aetna has published a clinical policy bulletin (Policy #0952, www.aetna.com/cpb/medical/data/900_999/0952.html) on the medical necessity for ultrasound guidance on certain procedures. We have many concerns about the document as outlined below …
Healthcare Delivery, Joint Letters
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Joint Letter to Secretary Pete Buttigieg regarding Hot Car Regulation
Dear Secretary Buttigieg: With America facing another long hot summer, the undersigned urge the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) to take immediate action to prevent deaths and serious, lifelong injuries resulting from children who may have entered or been left unattended in motor veh …
Joint Letters, Other Issues
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AHRQ Report on Diagnostic Errors in the Emergency Department
As experts in emergency medicine, our organizations are committed to improving patient care in the practice of emergency medicine. Yet, we are deeply concerned about the recently released report and systematic review by Dr. David Newman-Toker, et. al., entitled Diagnostic Errors in the Emergen …
Joint Letters, Joint Statements
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Joint Letter to the White House on Emergency Department Boarding
There is no question that Americans have suffered great loss of life and endured financial hardships, across all sectors, over the past 32 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontline healthcare workers risked their lives, provided care during physically and emotionally demanding situations, and …
Crowding, Joint Letters
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Joint Letter to US Department of Veterans Affairs Supremacy Project
Dear Secretary McDonough:The undersigned physician organizations have recently learned of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Supremacy Project. We are writing to express our serious concerns with the VA’s efforts to develop National Standards of Practice for physicians and other health profe …
EM Workforce, Joint Letters, Public Policy Statements
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Joint Letter to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Re: RIN 2900–AQ94—Authority of VA Professionals to Practice Health Care AAEM signed on to a joint statement via email to to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs opposing the Interim Final Rule (IFR) NPPs are an integral part of physician-led health care teams. However, NPP …
EM Workforce, Joint Letters
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Joint Letter to President-Elect Biden regarding FTC Action on Non-Compete Clauses
Dear President-elect Biden, Due to the fiscal and public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of workers remain unemployed and workers who have jobs face increasing precarity and coercive practices in the labor market. Employers’ use of non-compete clauses is an example of a …
EM Workforce, Joint Letters
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Joint Letter to the Texas COVID-19 Expert Vaccine Allocation Panel
Distinguished Members of the COVID-19 Expert Vaccine Allocation Panel, We first want to thank you for your time and dedication to our great state during this health care crisis. The work your panel is tasked with is critical in how our state moves forward from this pandemic. On behalf of a co …
Joint Letters, Joint Statements
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Joint Letter to the Allopathic and Osteopathic Medical Board members Regarding the Chapter 2 Reproposal in Portland, ME
Dear Allopathic and Osteopathic Medical Board members, Thank you for reviewing our comments to the Chapter 2 reproposal. As physicians representing various medical specialties, and an organization representing 12,000 physicians, residents, medical students, and assistant physicians interested in …
Joint Letters, Other Issues
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Joint Letter to Oppose H.R. 884 / S. 2772 — The Medicare Mental Health Access Act
Dear Committee Leaders: The undersigned medical professional organizations write to you with an urgent request that impacts the quality of care that our nation’s patients receive. H.R. 884 / S. 2772, the “Medicare Mental Health Access Act,” would change the definition of “physician” un …
Joint Letters, Medicare/Medicaid, Wellness
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Doximity
Dear Colleagues, It has come to our attention that Doximity is, once again, surveying emergency physicians to create “rankings” of emergency medicine residency training programs with a biased methodology. This type of flawed data approach does not benefit students applying to emergency medic …
Joint Letters, Other Issues
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Joint Letter to Congress regarding Surprise Medical Billing in COVID-19 Relief Package
Dear Speaker Pelosi, Leader McConnell, Leader McCarthy, and Leader Schumer:The undersigned state and national medical societies, representing hundreds of thousands of frontline physicians, thank you for your continued efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. As you know, this public health cris …
COVID-19, Joint Letters, Public Policy Statements
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Joint Letter to Veterans Health Administration on CRNA Oversight
Dear Dr. Stone:The undersigned medical associations and medical specialty societies are writing to register serious concerns with the Health Care Professional Practice in VA Memorandum (Memorandum) issued by the Office of the Under Secretary of Health on April 21, 2020, and underlying Directive 189 …
EM Workforce, Joint Letters, Public Policy Statements
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Joint Letter to Congress Urging further Protections for Healthcare Workers during COVID-19
Dear Speaker Pelosi, Leader McConnell, Leader McCarthy, and Leader Schumer:The American Medical Association and undersigned state medical societies and national physician specialty organizations appreciate the recent actions taken by Congress and the Administration to help physicians, other health …
COVID-19, Joint Letters, Public Policy Statements
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Joint Letter to HHS: Emergency Funding for Physicians through the CARES Act
Dear Secretary Azar:The undersigned organizations represent the hundreds of thousands of physicians who treat our nation’s patients every day. We are writing to request immediate financial assistance for physicians across the country who are taking heroic action to treat patients with the novel c …
COVID-19, Joint Letters, Public Policy Statements