Christian Shalgian, Director, ACS Division of Advocacy and Health Policy, and ACS Regent Steven D. Wexner, MD, FACS, FRCSEng, FRCSEd, FRCSI(Hon), FRCSGlasg(Hon), Director, Digestive Disease Institute at Cleveland Clinic Florida, discuss the state of efforts to get Congress to prevent significant planned Medicare payment cuts to surgeons, which will threaten patient access to care. He speaks about forming the Surgical Care Coalition to help increase surgery’s collective voice, the recent success in getting more than half of the U.S. House of Representatives to sign on to a letter calling on leadership to address the issue, how ACS Fellows and members can advocate for stopping the cuts to their legislators, and more.
Learn more about the ACS' efforts to stop the proposed Medicare payment cuts. [ Ссылка ]
