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Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MFS)

• ASTRO submits comment letter to CMS on Final Rule for calendar year 2010 (12/09)
• ASTRO submits comment letter to CMS on Proposed Rule for calendar year 2010 (8/09)
• ASTRO urges Secretary Sebelius to stop Medicare cuts (7/09)
• ASTRO submits comment letter to CMS on the Final Rule for calendar year 2009 (12/08)
• ASTRO submits comment letter to CMS on the Proposed Rule for calendar year 2009 (8/08)
• Extended comment letter to CMS on the Proposed Rule for calendar year 2008 (4/08)
• ASTRO submits comment letter to CMS on the Final Rule for calendar year 2008(12/07)

• ASTRO submits comment letter to CMS on the Proposed Rule for calendar year 2008 (8/07)

Cancer Research Funding

• Letter to Senator Specter sharing the opinions of the ASTRO and the Cancer Leadership Council (7/08)
• Letter to Speaker Pelosi requesting support in the House for funding of $400 million for the National Institutes of Health (6/08)

Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS)

• ASTRO submits comment letter to CMS on the hospital outpatient proposed rule for calendar year 2010 (8/09)
• ASTRO submits comment letter to CMS on the hospital outpatient final rule for calendar year 2009 (12/08)
• ASTRO submits comment letter to CMS on the hospital outpatient proposed rule for calendar year 2009 (9/08)
• ASTRO submits comment letter to CMS on the hospital outpatient final rule for calendar year 2008 (12/07)

• ASTRO submits comment letter to CMS on the hospital outpatient proposed rule for calendar year 2008 (9/07)

Additional Hospital Outpatient Information

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Comment on Draft Comparative Effectiveness Research Report on Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancers (8/09)
• Revised CMS coding policy for brachytherapy sources (6/07)

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• Comments on proposed prostate brachytherapy rule (10/08)
• Comments to the NRC for the Cesium Chloride Roundtable (10/08)

CRS Report for Congress

• Medicare: Payments to Physicians (1/08)

CBO Testimony

• Increasing the Value of Federal Spending on Health Care (7/08)
• Growth in Healthcare Costs (1/08)