AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION for AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Budget/Appropriations BUD

H.R. 1832, To authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention, all provisions S. 834, To authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention, all provisions Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) funding Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) funding National Quality Forum (NQF) funding

Contacted: Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA); U.S. Postal Service (USPS); Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); White House Office; President of the U.S.; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); SENATE

Bills named: S. 834 (115th), H.R. 1832 (115th)

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

S. 898, Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act, all provisions Medical Licensure

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Food & Drug Administration (FDA); SENATE; White House Office; Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); President of the U.S.; Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); U.S. Postal Service (USPS); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

Bills named: S. 898 (115th)

Torts TOR

H.R. 302, Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act of 2017, all provisions S. 808, Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 1215, Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 1876, Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 1704, Accessible Care by Curbing Excessive lawSuitS (ACCESS) Act of 2017, all provisions Medical Liability Reform

Contacted: President of the U.S.; Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA); U.S. Postal Service (USPS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); White House Office; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 1704 (115th), H.R. 1215 (115th), H.R. 1876 (115th), S. 808 (115th), H.R. 302 (115th)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Tax Reform - Accounting Methods

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); White House Office; SENATE; Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; President of the U.S.; U.S. Postal Service (USPS); Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA); Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Health Issues HCR

H.R. 309, National Clinical Care Commission Act, all provisions S. 920, National Clinical Care Commission Act, all provisions H.R. 1270, Living Donor Protection Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 3440, DREAM Act of 2017, all provisions S. 1615, DREAM Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 394, Restoring Access to Medication Act of 2017, all provisions S. 85, Restoring Access to Medication Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 1628, The American Health Care Act, all provisions and Graham-Cassidy amendment S. 1803, Marijuana Effective Drug Studies (MEDS) Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 1057, Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act of 2017, all provisions S. 372, Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 2077, Restoring the Patient's Voice Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 2430, FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017, all provisions S. 934, FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017, all provisions S.1754 - Training the Next Generation of Primary Care Doctors Act of 2017, provisions relating to community health center fund reauthorization H.R.3394 - Teaching Health Centers Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Extension Act of 2017, provisions relating to community health center fund reauthorization Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), all provisions Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act (ORRA), all provisions The Healthcare Freedom Act, S. Amdt. 667 Affordable Care Act Repeal/Replace Affordable Care Act: market stabilization; Section 1557 Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) partial fill policies Opioid Abuse Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Immigration - DACA program Travel Ban Health Savings Accounts - Prescription requirement for over-the-counter medications Health Care Reform Regulatory Relief Telemedicine Technology-based Eye Care Services program Prior authorization Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) National Evaluation System for Health Technology (NEST) Mobile health apps Electronic prescribing of controlled substances Continuing Medical Education and opioid/pain management prescribing Prescription Drug Pricing Small practice/solo physician groups/FDA policies Rural communities/broadband coverage expansion National Service Fund cap HIPAA: Section 1557, gender identity protection Cybersecurity Digital medicine ICD-10 Hurricane Relief Drug Compounding Electronic Health Records (EHR) - interoperability, data blocking, certification National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Nomination of Jerome Adams, MD for Surgeon General of the U.S.

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); White House Office; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. Postal Service (USPS); President of the U.S.; Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); SENATE; Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)

Bills named: S. 920 (115th), H.R. 1057 (115th), H.R. 2077 (115th), S. 1754 (115th), H.R. 3394 (115th), S. 1803 (115th), H.R. 309 (115th), H.R. 1270 (115th), H.R. 394 (115th), S. 372 (115th), H.R. 3440 (115th), S. 1615 (115th), S. 934 (115th), H.R. 2430 (115th), H.R. 1628 (115th), S. 85 (115th)

Veterans VET

S. 925, Veterans E-Health and Telemedicine Support Act of 2017, all provisions VA Choice Program Reauthorization Telehealth Scope of Practice

Contacted: White House Office; U.S. Postal Service (USPS); Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA); Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); SENATE; President of the U.S.; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

Bills named: S. 925 (115th)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

H.R. 2556, CONNECT for Health Act of 2017, provisions relating to Medicare S. 1016, CONNECT for Health Act of 2017, provisions relating to Medicare S. 1827, Keep Kids' Insurance Dependable and Secure (KIDS) Act of 2017, provisions related to Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) reauthorization H.R. 3921, Helping Ensure Access for Little Ones, Toddlers, and Hopeful Youth by Keeping Insurance Delivery Stable (HEALTHY KIDS) Act of 2017, provisions related to CHIP reauthorization H.R. 2276, Audiology Patient Choice Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 1628, The American Health Care Act, provisions relating to Medicare and Medicaid H.R. 3482, Evidence-Based Telehealth Expansion Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 2938, Road to Recovery Act, all provisions H.R. 849, Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2017, all provisions S. 870, Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 1156, Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2017, all provisions S. 1133, Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 3120, To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the volume of future electronic health record-related significant hardship requests, all provisions S. 479, Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2017, all provisions H.R. 3528, Every Prescription Conveyed Securely Act, all provisions Medicare program: Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), provisions relating to Medicaid Medicare program: Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act (ORRA), provisions relating to Medicaid Medicare program: Medicare Common Access Card Act, provisions relating to fraud Medicare program: Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) repeal Medicare program: Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) implementation/clinical labs Medicare program: Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Medicare program: Misvalued codes Medicare program: Small group practice definition Medicare program: Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) technical assistance Medicare program: Creating Access to Residency Education Act, all provisions Medicare program: MACRA implementation Medicare program: MACRA modifications Medicare program: Electronic Health Records (EHR) Medicare program: Alternate Payment Models (APM) Medicare program: Graduate Medical Education Medicare program: Regulatory Relief Medicare program: Telemedicine Medicare program: Quality Payment Program (QPP) Medicare program: Physician Quality Reporting System Medicare program: Value-Based Modifier (VBM) Medicare program: Medicare Advantage Medicare program: Two-Midnight/Observation Care Medicare program: Appropriate Use Criteria Medicare program: Evaluation and Management (E&M) documentation guidelines Medicare program: Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Health IT Certification Medicare program: Unique Device Identifier (UDI) Medicare program: Medical home models flexibility Medicare program: All-Cause Hospital Readmissions Measure Medicare program: Prior authorization Medicare program: Electronic prescribing of controlled substances Medicare program: Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Medicare program: Meaningful Use (MU)/Advancing Care Information (ACI) scoring system Medicare program: Program Integrity Medicare program: Provider interpretation and translation services costs Medicare program: Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion Medicare program: Medicaid Reform Medicare program: Open Payments Medicare program: Provider Enrollment, Chain & Ownership System (PECOS)/Medicare Enrollment Medicare program: Diabetes Prevention Medicare program: HIPAA: Section 1557, gender identity protection Medicare program: Interoperability and Trust Framework Medicare program: Electronic attachments Medicare program: ICD-10 Medicare program: Audits Medicare and Medicaid programs: AAHPMs HHS/PTAC proposal for Patient and Caregiver Support for Serious Illness (PACSSI) payment model Medicare and Medicaid programs: Stark Law reforms Medicaid program: Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Contacted: White House Office; Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA); Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); U.S. Postal Service (USPS); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); President of the U.S.; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Bills named: S. 1016 (115th), H.R. 2276 (115th), H.R. 3482 (115th), H.R. 2938 (115th), S. 1133 (115th), S. 1827 (115th), H.R. 2556 (115th), H.R. 849 (115th), H.R. 3528 (115th), H.R. 1156 (115th), S. 870 (115th), H.R. 3921 (115th), H.R. 1628 (115th), S. 479 (115th), H.R. 3120 (115th)