Advocacy Articles
Updates about legislative and regulatory issues impacting the field of sleep medicine
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma identified several priorities for the agency during the recent 2019 CMS Quality Conference. The event, held Jan. 29-31 in Baltimore, brought together 3,000 leaders from across the health care spectrum to discuss quality improvement. [...]
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) recently posted a report drafted by the “Continuing Board Certification: Vision for the Future Commission,” which reviewed the purpose and framework of the current maintenance of certification (MOC) process. In response to the draft report, the American [...]
The Sleep Health topic area and objectives that were in Healthy People 2020 have been included by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the proposed structure for Healthy People 2030. Healthy People focuses on critical health promotion and disease prevention topics, [...]
Results from the Nov. 6 midterm general election present a complex legislative scenario at both the federal and state level. The United States Congress will be split in 2019, with the House of Representatives controlled by Democrats, and Republicans gaining seats in the Senate. [...]
Please share the following information with your teenage patients and encourage them to enter the 2019 AASM “Sleep Works for You” High School Video Contest! The American Academy of Sleep Medicine invites U.S. high school students to enter the 2019 AASM “Sleep Works for [...]
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is a National Obesity Care Week champion, supporting this nationwide effort to raise awareness of obesity, its treatments, weight bias, and access to care, while ensuring that the relationship between obesity and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is [...]
On Sept. 26, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a spending bill totaling $854 billion in an effort to avoid a looming government shutdown. The bill, HR 6157, passed the House through an overwhelming, bi-partisan majority vote of 361-61. With the Senate passing an [...]
The AASM recently submitted comments in response to the policy revisions proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program. Many of the revisions in the 2019 proposed rule, released by CMS [...]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to remove two AASM-stewarded obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) measures from the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program for the 2021 payment year (and future years). The measures proposed for removal are: 276 – Sleep [...]
On Aug. 31, the last day of California’s legislative session, the Golden State’s Senate and State Assembly passed a bill to delay middle school and high school start times to begin no earlier than 8:30 a.m. The bill, SB328, was introduced in 2017 with [...]