CMS Proposed Rule Aims at AMA-Designed Paperwork Burden, States the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 13, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a Proposed Rule to “blend” payments for higher-level office visits, while decreasing...

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) Challenges Price Controls in California TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 14, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the strictest wage and price control in history against physicians in our nation: AB 72, writes AAPS...

Laws on “Surprise Medical Bills” Could Be Gateway to Single Payer, according to the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons TUCSON, Ariz., March 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A number of states, including New York, Maryland, Texas, Colorado, New Jersey, Connecticut, and California, have passed laws to address the issue of...

Bottom-Up Solution to Top-Down Medical Disaster Offered by Ohio Physician in Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 12, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medicine is being “fundamentally transformed” into an unaffordable, complex, adversarial, depersonalized labyrinth, writes dermatologist Melinda...

California AB 72 is Anti-patient, Anti-physician, and Legally Flawed; Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) Asks Governor for Veto TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 06, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AB 72, the measure promoted misleadingly as a means to end “surprise medical bills,” would have a “devastating effect on the availability of...