Testimony, Regulatory Comments, Letters and Other Comments

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Testimony

Preserving Rural Seniors' Access to Health Care, 8/8/08

FY09 Appropriations: House Subcommittee on LHHS, Education, and Related Agencies, 3/31/08

In Support of HR 2790, A Bill to Elevate the VA's PA Advisor to a Full-Time Director of PA Services in the VA Central Office: House Subcommittee on Health, 1/17/08

Recruitment and Retention of the VA Health Care Workforce: House Subcommittee on Health, 10/18/07

FY08 Appropriations: House Subcommittee on LHHS, Education, and Related Agencies, 3/30/07

FY07 Appropriations: House Subcommittee on LHHS, Education, and Related Agencies, 3/31/06

Federal Employees Compensation Act: House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, 5/26/05

FY06 Appropriations: Senate Subcommittee on LHHS, Education, and Related Agencies, 3/31/05

FY05 Appropriations: Senate Subcommittee on LHHS, Education, and Related Agencies, 3/31/04

Advances in Adult and Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, 6/26/03

FY04 Appropriations: Senate Subcommittee on LHHS, Education, and Related Agencies,  4/01/03

Supervision of Diagnostic Tests by PAs: Practicing Physicians Advisory Council,  2/10/03

FY03 Appropriations: Senate Subcommittee on LHHS, Education, and Related Agencies,  4/15/02

Medicare Regulatory and Contracting Reform Act of 2001: House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health,  10/09/1

FY02 Appropriations: House Subcommittee on LHHS, Education, and Related Agencies, 3/29/01

 

Regulatory Comments

DEA: Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances, 9/24/08

Dept. of Health and Human Services: Provider Conscience Regulation/RIN 0991-AB48, 9/19/08

Dept. of Health and Human Services: Proposed Changes in Conditions of Participation Requirements and Payment Provisions

for Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers, 8/26/08

HRSA: Proposed Changes to the HPSA/MUP Designation Rule, 5/20/08

OPM: Draft Qualification Standard and Occupational Series Name Change for the Physician Assistant, 0603 Series, 4/17/08

U.S. Department of Labor: FMLA, 4/7/08

CMS: Patient Safety Measures, 6/12/07

U.S. Department of Labor: FMLA, 1/24/07

CMS: Medicaid Citizenship Documentation, 8/11/06

Citizens' Health Care Working Group: Interim Recommendations, 8/10/06

CMS: Physician Oversight of Non-Physician Practitioners, 9/16/05

CMS: Proposed Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Hospital Conditions of Participation: Requirements for History and Physical Examinations; Authentication of Verbal Orders; Securing Medications, and Postanesthesia Evaluations, 5/24/05

DEA: Dispensing of Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Chronic Pain, 3/20/05

MEDPAC: Proposed Medicare Payment Methodology for First Assisting at Surgery, 10/27/04

CMS: Proposed 2005 Physician Fee Schedule, 9/23/04

Senate Finance Committee: Proposed Reforms in the Regulation of Nonprofit, Tax-Exempt Organizations, 8/3/04

FDA: Toll-Free Number for Reporting Adverse Effects of Drug Products, 7/21/04

GAO: Report Entitled Payment Changes Are Needed for First Assistants-at-Surgery (GAO-04-97), 3/23/04

CMS: Revisions to End-Stage Renal Disease Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2004, 10/6/03

OPM: Draft Classification Standard for PAs, 9/30/03

Dept of Labor: Exemptions from Minimum Wage & Overtime Pay, 6/24/03

CMS: Requirements for Establishing and Maintaining Medicare Billing Privileges, 6/23/03

INS: Certificates for Certain Health Care Workers, 12/9/02

Dept of Energy: Human Reliability Program Rule, 10/15/02

CMS: EMTALA, 7/05/02

CMS: Revisions to Payment Policy Under the Physician Fee Schedule for 2002, 9/25/01

HCFA: Medicare Provider Enrollment Application, Form HCFA-855, 4/20/01

INS: Establishing Procedures for Aliens as Health Workers, 3/16/01