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The Endocrine Society Takes its Advocacy Message to the Hill
On November 7, members of the Society’s Advocacy and Public Outreach Core Committee (APOCC) took to the halls of Congress to advance the Society’s advocacy agenda. Committee members focused on three main issues...
| Endocrine Society Addresses Capitol Hill on Obesity Epidemic
On October 29, Gilbert August, MD, representing The Endocrine Society, spoke to a near-capacity crowd of congressional staffers, association leaders, and industry executives at a luncheon briefing on Capitol Hill....
| L-HHS Appropriations Bill Set to Go to President; Veto Likely
This week, both the House and Senate approved a conferenced version of the FY 2008 Labor-HHS-Education (L-HHS) appropriations bill. The House initially passed the measure as part of a larger package that included the military construction-VA (VA) spending bill, with the intention of preventing a presidential veto of L-HHS by combining it with a bill that has the president’s support. However, the Senate voted first to split the L-HHS bill from the VA bill...
| CMS Final Rule Reflects Physician Payment Cut and Upward DXA Equipment Correction
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Final 2008 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule last week, providing physician payment information for the upcoming year. The schedule proposes a 10.1 percent cut to physician payments in 2008...
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