My colleague Ms. Brooks and Mr. Butterfield and Mr. Peters introduced legislation yesterday to try to address some of these issues.
As a Member of Congress, I am doing what I can to get that message out, that whatever we can do to increase primary care, we should be doing...
unless the legislative branch in a bipartisan way reasserts its authority the future of the Constitution and this country is at risk.
And people that have substantial political pull in this town will not be selected to have their reimbursement cut.
So you can see--you have the Federal Government in Washington, DC, affecting the local marketplace and health care and picking winners and l...
Seniors deserve our respect. They deserve to be treated with nothing but dignity.
This model represents a dangerous precedent where future administrations could change the statutory reimbursement for any provider or servic...
Discussing the premise of physicians basing therapy on reimbursement is just--it's almost an insult to the medical profession.
I would urge CMS to scrap this proposal and come to the table with stakeholders and look at other ways that we can address patient medicatio...
I just want to put that out there, and for anyone to think that there won't be is just--doesn't know Washington, DC.
Cutting provider reimbursement without addressing the ASP is just the wrong approach.