HIVMA : Other Policy Issues

10/31/2011

CMS Proposal to Improve Part D Drug Utilization Controls for Antiretrovirals

HIVMA sent a letter (PDF) to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) raising concerns about a proposal to implement beneficiary-level controls to prevent overutilization of antiretrovirals under Medicare Part D.

10/26/2011

HIVMA Common Rule Comments

HIVMA Comments on Human Subjects Research Protections: Enhancing Protections for Research Subjects and Reducing Burden, Delay, and Ambiguity for Investigators (Docket ID Number HHS-OPHS-2011-0005)

09/20/2011

Policy Statement on HIV Infected Organ Transplantation

Federal Law Should Allow Clinical Research on the Safety and Effectiveness of HIV-Infected‐to‐HIV‐Infected Organ Transplantation: A change in policy is necessary to support medical progress and allow for research to fully evaluate HIV-infected organ donation to HIV‐infected patients.

08/03/2011

Joint Statement on Implementation of the Debt Ceiling Agreement

HIV Medicine Association and the Ryan White Medical Providers Coalition released a joint statment urging members of Congress to consider the human impact of the funding and policy decisions that they will be making in the coming months.

07/28/2011

Expanding Patient Access to Non-Physician Medicaid Providers

In a letter to Senator Daniel Inouye, HIVMA Board Chair Kathleen Squires, MD expressed HIVMA's support and endorsement of his bill, the "Medicaid Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants Access Act of 2011" (S.56).