Healthcare Reform Information

AAO-HNS’ Healthcare Reform Advocacy Efforts

The American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) is actively engaged in healthcare reform efforts in Washington, D.C. The Academy has joined the surgical community to formally submit comments to advocate for the inclusion or improvement of physician specific components of healthcare reform legislation in the House and Senate. To learn more about AAO-HNS’ positions on healthcare reform, review the links below.

To access more information on the Academy's state and federal advocacy efforts, please visit AAO-HNS' Advocacy homepage at http://www.entnet.org/advocacy (member log in required).

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November

• AAO-HNS Letter to Rep. John Dingell regarding H.R. 3962, the “Affordable Healthcare for America Act” and H.R. 3961, the “Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act.”
  
• Surgical Coalition Letter to Senate Leadership Outlining Reform Priorities

September 2009

• Surgical Coalition Responds to Hospital Exclusion from IMAC Proposal in Senate
  
• Surgical Specialty Coalition Comments on Amendments to the Senate Finance Healthcare Reform Proposal
  
• Surgical Specialty Coalition Comments on Senate Finance Healthcare Reform Proposal
• Joint Surgical Letter to Speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader Boehner Outlining “Surgeons and Healthcare Reform” Principles
• Surgeons and Healthcare Reform
  
• Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives about Medical Liability Reform
  
• Letter to the U.S. Senate about Medical Liability Reform
  

August 2009

• AAO-HNS Signs Joint Surgical Letter to President Obama Regarding His Egregious Comments About Tonsillectomy and Amputation
• Statement from the American College of Surgeons Regarding Recent Comments from President Obama
  

July 2009

• Surgical Society Letter to Speaker Pelosi Voicing Strong Opposition to the Creation of an “Independent Medicare Advisory Council” (IMAC)
  
• Congressman Neal's (D-MA) Letter to Speaker Pelosi Against the Independent Medicare Advisory Council (IMAC)
  
• View the July 28, 2009, Fox News Interview of AAO-HNS President-elect Ronald Kuppersmith, MD, FACS, Regarding President Obama’s Tonsillectomy Comment and Healthcare Reform
• AAO-HNS Responds to President Obama’s Remarks on Tonsillectomy
• American College of Surgeons Calls President’s Comments about Physicians Ill-Informed
• AAO-HNS Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives on H.R. 3200, “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009”
  
• Coalition Letter to Chairman Waxman in Opposition to Weiner Amendment to Limit Imaging Physician Self-Referrals

June 2009

• AAO-HNS Comments on the Tri-Committee Legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives

May 2009

• AAO-HNS Comments on Section Two and Three of Chairman Baucus’ Health Reform Policy Options
• AAO-HNS Comments on Section One of Chairman Baucus’ Health Reform Policy Options
• AAO-HNS Signs Letter Asking Chairman Baucus to Include the CARES Act in Healthcare Reform Legislation

March 2009

• AAO-HNS Signs Letter to Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee