The AANS and CNS support legislation to provide common sense, proven, comprehensive medical liability reform. Federal legislation modeled after the laws in California or Texas, which includes reasonable limits on noneconomic damages, represents the "gold standard." The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has shown that comprehensive medical liability reform would provide $54 billion in savings to the federal government. Other solutions should be adopted including: (1) Applying the Federal Tort Claims Act to services mandated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act; (2) liability protections for physicians who volunteer their services; (3) liability protections for physicians who follow practice guidelines set by their specialties; and (4) clarifying that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) did not create any new causes of action. Organized neurosurgery, together with coalitions of medical organizations, is leading the charge to tackle medical liability reform.
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Letters
Published: October 29, 2019
RE: Support for S. 2546, the “Safe Step Act” Dear Senators Murkowski and Jones: As the Alliance of Specialty Medicine (Alliance), our mission is to advocate for sound federal health […]
Letters
Published: October 29, 2019
Dear Secretary Azar: The undersigned organizations represent the hundreds of thousands of physicians who treat ournation’s Medicare patients every day. We are committed to working with the Administration onefforts to […]
Letters
Published: October 16, 2019
Dear Majority Leader McConnell and Democratic Leader Schumer: The undersigned medical organizations remain committed to working with Congress to seek a balancedlegislative solution to protect patients from unanticipated (“surprise”) medical […]
Letters
Published: October 16, 2019
Dear Speaker Pelosi and Republican Leader McCarthy: The undersigned medical organizations remain committed to working with Congress to seek a balancedlegislative solution to protect patients from unanticipated (“surprise”) medical bills […]
Letters
Published: September 24, 2019
Dear Majority Leader McConnell, Speaker Pelosi, Minority Leader Schumer and MinorityLeader McCarthy: On behalf of the over six hundred innovators, patient groups, physicians, hospitals, venturecapitalists and other stakeholders signed below […]
Letters
Published: September 20, 2019
Dear Administrator Verma: The undersigned physician organizations support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’(CMS) Patients Over Paperwork initiative and applaud CMS for tackling the challenging issue ofprior authorization (PA) […]
Article
Published: September 11, 2019
Statement for the Recordon behalf of theAmerican Association of Neurological Surgeonsand theCongress of Neurological Surgeonsbefore theCommittee on Small BusinessU.S. House of Representativeson the topic ofUtilization Management: Barriers to Care and […]
Letters
Published: September 9, 2019
Dear Members of Congress: The undersigned patient, physician, health care professional, and other health care stakeholderorganizations strongly support the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2019 (H.R.3107) recently […]
Letters
Published: August 12, 2019
SUBJECT: Reducing Administrative Burden to Put Patients Over Paperwork Dear Administrator Verma, On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress ofNeurological Surgeons (CNS), representing more […]
Letters
Published: August 12, 2019
Subject: Request for Information; Reducing Administrative Burden To Put Patients OverPaperwork; RIN 0938–ZB54 Dear Administrator Verma: The Regulatory Relief Coalition (the Coalition) is pleased to have the opportunity to comment […]
Letters
Subject: AANS/CNS Endorsement of H.R. 3984, the Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act Dear Representatives Flores, Marshall and Babin: On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and […]
Letters
Subject: S. 692, the Protect Medical Innovation Act Dear Senators Toomey and Klobuchar, On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress ofNeurological Surgeons (CNS), we […]
Letters
Subject: H.R. 2207, the Protect Medical Innovation Act Dear Reps. Kind, Walorski, Peters and Hudson, On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of NeurologicalSurgeons […]
