Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

Juliette Madrigal, MD

Message from AAPS President, Juliette Madrigal-Dersch, MD

Jun 10, 2013

If you want a say in the way politics impacts your practice and your professional livelihood, the AAPS represent the best investment in time and money you can make. Right now doctors are under attack from many different fronts. Our freedoms and liberties are being whittled away and restrictions are being put upon doctors from those outside of medicine as... read more

AAPS Takes MOC to Court

Jun 10, 2013

The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) has filed suit April 23, 2013 in federal court against the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) for restraining trade and causing a reduction in access by patients to their physicians. The ABMS has entered into agreements with 24 other corporations to impose enormous “recertification” burdens on physicians, which are not justified... read more

Keith Smith, MD

What Will the [Un]Affordable Care Act Look Like in a Year?

Jun 17, 2013

By Keith Smith, M.D. - http://SurgeryCenterOK.com Many are speculating about the outcome of what I call UCA for the [Un]Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare. I think there are two basic scenarios. First is that UCA will do precisely what it was intended to do: inject economic chaos into the medical marketplace, driving prices for insurance and healthcare through... read more

Jane Orient, MD

The IRS and Your Health

Jun 10, 2013

By Jane Orient, MD: As Americans watch congressional hearings on the Internal Revenue Service, they should ask themselves what this enormously powerful, corrupt, politically motivated agency might do with its new job of administering ObamaCare. We have heard testimony from those whose tax exemption was delayed or denied, or who underwent abusive audits, or faced seizure of their accumulated earnings,... read more

Help Put Dr. Alieta Eck on NJ Senate Ballot

Jun 8, 2013

Earlier this week we asked for your help contacting Gov. Christie to ask him to appoint Dr. Alieta Eck. Despite the huge number of call, emails, and petitions in support of Dr. Eck the Governor has appointed someone else. HOWEVER... Due to the large show of support for Dr. Alieta Eck an effort is underway to get her name placed... read more

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Reforming SGR: Prioritizing Quality in a Modernized Physician Payment System

Jun 5, 2013

Hearing Description: The Health Subcommittee recently met to review the draft legislation designed to repeal the current SGR (Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate) and replace it with a more sensible reimbursement program. Representatives in the subcommittee were in unanimous agreement that a change to the SGR is needed and they are currently looking at using an incentive laden program to improve... read more

ObamaCare Train Wreck - AAPS News June 2013

May 31, 2013

Volume 69, no. 6 June 2013 Some health-reform advocates are still upbeat about the wonderful coverage soon to be available when the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is fully implemented, even as the “most transparent Administration in American history” is racked with scandals and accusations of cover-ups. But the wheels are coming off the train. The End of Employer-Provided Medical Insurance?... read more

Affordably Unaffordable Healthcare

May 29, 2013

By Annette Teijeiro, M.D. Now that 2013 is into the second quarter, we are well into some of the tax changes in preparation for the major unveiling of the new healthcare law, also misrepresented as Affordable Care Act (ACA) or dubbed Obamacare by its opponents. Some of us were so concerned with the potential rationed care for our elderly and... read more

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