Thank you to the following members who joined us to advocate for some of the most pressing issues facing gastroenterology and our patients at the 2020 Alliance of Specialty Medicine virtual fly-in. Our advocates met with 11 House and Senate offices to push for preventing cuts to Medicare reimbursement, passing COVID-19 relief, reducing prior authorization burdens and minimizing the strict constraints of step therapy protocols.
- Rotonya M. Carr, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Simon C. Mathews, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
- Maged Rizk, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
- Yamini Natarajan, MD, Houston, Texas
- Shazia M. Siddique, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Sarah E. Streett, MD, Orinda, California
- Steven L. Carpenter, MD, Savannah, Georgia
- Claudia B. Gruss, MD, Redding, Connecticut
- Dale R. Bachwich, MD, Rapid City, South Dakota
- Sadeea Q. Abbasi, MD, Santa Monica, California
- Anthony Sofia, MD, Portland, Oregon
Join us and your colleagues in advocating for our year-end policy priorities:
- Medicare reimbursement cuts
- COVID-19 relief
- Regulatory relief
- Passage of the FY21 budget
- CRC screening cost sharing
The Alliance of Specialty Medicine is a coalition of national medical societies representing specialty physicians in the U.S.
