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ASTRO President Tim Williams, M.D., and CEO Laura Thevenot attended a
healthcare stakeholders’ discussion at the Eisenhower Executive Office
Building on June 18, 2009, which was sponsored by the White House
Office of Health Reform, to discuss how to use prevention and wellness
initiatives to lower healthcare costs and improve quality of care.
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Radiation oncologists
now have a colleague on Capitol Hill. Last November, Parker Griffith, M.D., who
represents Alabama's 5th District, was elected as the first radiation oncologist
in Congress after a campaign where he stressed the need to make healthcare more
affordable and accessible to all Americans.
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Last week, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and the panel's top Republican, Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, released options for potential changes to Medicare reimbursement for a wide range of services and procedures performed by hospitals...
Last week, Congress approved the 2010 budget blueprint that includes language opening the door to a legislative solution to end self-referral abuses in radiation therapy. ASTRO staff confirmed with the House Budget Committee that modifications to physician...
Democrats got off to a fast start in their efforts to reform healthcare by providing coverage to up to 4.1 million children after Congress passed and Obama signed into law a four-and-a-half-year reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance...
Economic stimulus legislation signed into law by President Obama in February provides billions of dollars in extra funding for adopting electronic medical records systems, expanding comparative effectiveness research and boosting infrastructure and research...