2025 first_quarter Filing

Medicare sequester, PAYGO H.R. 10073, Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2024: payment rates H.R.8812, I CAN Act: provision of service under Medicare H.R. 2474, Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act: an annual inflation adjustment to Medicare physician payments Medicare Advantage Upcoding Medicare for All/Public Option Rural Anesthesiology: Rural Pass Through Out of Network/Out of Network Payment Network Adequacy Historical Medicare payment undervaluation for anesthesiology services (33% problem) Anesthesia Conversion Factor Perioperative Surgical Home Model Bundled payments CMS Interpretive Guidelines: Hospital Conditions of Participation Related to Anesthesia Services Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule CMS Value-Based purchasing Conditions of Participation - Anesthesia services, opt-outs, supervision Physician Quality Reporting System, PPACA, Sec. 3007 Quality Modifier implementation Graduate Medical Education Value-based modifier - PPACA QCDR - Qualified Clinical Data Registry Evaluation and Monitoring codes & cuts Certified Anesthesiologist Assistants CMS: Federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) Process, Batching Budget neutrality Medicare Economic Index: Medicare inflationary increase

Practice Support/Grants to Practice H.R. 10331, Anesthesia for All Act: prohibit time caps on reimbursement for anesthesia services H.R.1173, Patients Right to Know Their Medication Act of 2023: prescription drug labeling H.R. 9572, No Surprises Enforcement Act: strengthen compliance with the No Surprises Act S.3548, Health Care Prices Revealed and Information to Consumers Explained Transparency Act: Ambulatory Surgical Centers H.R.6205, Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act: physician workforce H.R.7591, National Patient Safety Board Act of 2024: patient safety S.1302, Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2023: residency positions S.665, Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act: Foreign physician immigration status Medical liability S. 705, Specialty Physicians Advancing Rural Care (SPARC) Act: physician shortages in rural areas Public Law No. 113-5, Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act (PAHPRA): preparedness for public health Lorna Breen Reauthorization H.R.27, HALT Fentanyl Act: fentanyl scheduling and registration requirements H.R. 1227, Alternatives to PAIN Act of 2025: access to non-opioid pain management options S. 475, Alternatives to PAIN Act of 2025: access to non-opioid pain management options H.R. 3259, NOPAIN Act: Opioids S. 586, NOPAIN Act: Opioids S. 1292, Non-Opioid Directive Act: Opioids H.R. 7961, SAVE Act: To protect hospital personnel from violence, and for other purposes. H.R.833, Save America's Rural Hospitals: rural pass through H.R. 7725, Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act: medical school funding H.R. 2671, Specialty Physicians Advancing Rural Care Act (the SPARC Act): student loan repayment programs to support specialty medical care in rural areas Pre-authorization; prior authorization Affordable Care Act reform efforts 42 CFR Part 2, Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records: appropriate access to patient information essential for providing whole-person care Resident Education Deferred Interest Act (REDI Act): Student loan relief Student Loan Forgiveness for Frontline Health Workers Act: Student loan relief 21st Century Cures Initiative H.R. 4369, National Centers of Excellence in Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Act: Drug shortages DEA Scheduling Propofol Comparative Effectiveness Research - PCORI HITECH Implementation, Electronic Health Records, Final and Proposed Rules, HIT Meaningful Use HHS/OIG Anesthesia Practice Arrangements, Company Model FDA Safe Use Initiative Pain Management Anesthesia Research Funding (Pediatric and others) Scope of Practice FDA Operating Room Fires Naloxone FDA Opioids Ketamine use by law enforcement Prescription Drug Abuse FDA Network of Experts NIH Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee USP - US Pharmacopeia National Pain Strategy Provider Nondiscrimination Compounding FDA Nominations to Advisory Committees (Anesthesia Drugs, Anesthesia Devices, Compounding) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funding Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Brain health Certified Anesthesiologist Assistants Blood management Long COVID research Anesthesia workforce shortages CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline 2024 Labor/HHS/Education appropriations bill Defense Health Agency anesthesia policy Maternal Mortality/Maternal Care Deserts Change Healthcare, Change Healthcare data breach Insurance reform, shared savings, insurer accountability NIH: Funding, Indirect Costs, Indirect Grants, Overhead