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    SCAI Program on Capitol Hill Focuses on Health Care Disparities

    SCAI was on Capitol Hill this week, hosting an educational program that drew a diverse audience of approximately 100 attendees, including House of Representatives staff, physicians and other health care providers, patients, and other members of the public. The latest in SCAI’s series of Know What Counts regional education programs was directed by SCAI Trustee Mark Turco, M.D., FSCAI, and cosponsored by the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), Mended Hearts, and WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease. The event assembled an esteemed group of speakers, including U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-MD), to examine racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in health care and discuss how to address these issues.

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    March 04, 2010

    SCAI Program on Capitol Hill Focuses on Health Care Disparities

    SCAI was on Capitol Hill this week, hosting an educational program that drew a diverse audience of approximately 100 attendees, including House of Representatives staff, physicians and other health care providers, patients, and other members of the public. The latest in SCAI’s series of Know What Counts regional education programs was directed by SCAI Trustee Mark Turco, M.D., FSCAI, and cosponsored by the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), Mended Hearts, and WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease. The event assembled an esteemed group of speakers, including U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-MD), to examine racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in health care and discuss how to address these issues.
    February 24, 2010

    SCAI Offers Health Care Reform Recommendations to President

    With President Barack Obama's new Health Care Reform proposal expected to be out early next week, SCAI has written to President Obama recommending changes in existing Democratic Health Care Reform proposals.
    January 11, 2010

    SCAI Offers Feedback as Senate and House Iron Out Differences in Health Care Reform Bills

    In a letter sent to Senate and House leaders in conjunction with its Alliance of Specialty Medicine partners, SCAI provides important feedback on issues of importance to interventional cardiologists and patients as Congress works to remedy differences between HR 3962, the “Affordable Health Care for America Act” and HR 3590, the “Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act.”
    December 18, 2009

    SCAI Supports the "Congenital Heart Futures Act"

    SCAI is encouraging senators to include Senate Amendment 3075, "Congenital Heart Futures Act", in the final health reform bill. This Act would ensure enhancement of NIH research, a new public awareness campaign, and CDC surveillance (through a National Congenital Heart Disease Registry) for congenital heart disease.
    December 17, 2009

    SCAI Expresses Concern About Warner Amendment to Senate Health Care Reform Bill

    SCAI and its Alliance of Specialty Medicine partners recently expressed their opposition to Sen. Mark Warner’s (D-VA) amendment #3119 to HR 3590.
    December 15, 2009

    SCAI, Specialty Medicine Partners Opposed to Lieberman/Collins Amendment to Health Care Reform Bill

    The Alliance of Specialty Medicine recently expressed opposition to Sen. Lieberman’s and Sen. Collins' amendment, SA 2898 to HR 3590 citing a variety of key policy issues.
    December 10, 2009

    House Passes H.R. 3961 to Eliminate SGR; Action Shifts to Senate

    The U.S. House of Representatives has just passed H.R. 3961 calling for the elimination of the sustainable growth rate (SGR). For most of the last eight years the SGR has meant annual double-digit cuts to physician reimbursement for health care delivered to Medicare patients. This year’s SGR-based fee cut would take effect Jan. 1, 2010, and could mean across-the board cuts of 21.5%.
    September 21, 2009

    SCAI Can Not Support Draft Senate Finance Committee’s Version of Health Care Reform

    SCAI Can Not Support Draft Senate Finance Committee’s Version of Health Care Reform
    August 10, 2009

    Specialtists Re-iterate Concerns With Health Reform Proposal

    The Alliance of Specialty Medicine recently reminded the Senate Committee on Finance of its concerns with the health care reform proposal in a letter to the Committee’s Chair Max Baucus (D - Montana) and ranking Republican Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa). In the letter, the Alliance addressed the following points:
    July 23, 2009

    Join SCAI in Expressing Concerns with Health Care Reform Bill

    SCAI is expressing serious concerns about the health care reform bill, "America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009."