On April 5, President Biden issued a Presidential Memorandum directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to coordinate a...

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on February 3, 2022 entitled “Bridging Health Equity Gaps for People with Disabilities...

Congressional leaders took care of several priority issues that they needed to handle before the end of the year. Among these challenges...

Congress Wrapping up 2021, CMS Finalizes GME Funding Congressional leaders are slowly taking care of several priority issues that they...

Physiatrist at St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute and Member of the AAP’s Public Policy Committee How did you get started in your...

Legislation to Sustain Federal Commitment to Research Introduced U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) has introduced two pieces...

Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of Quality & Compliance at McGovern Medical School/ UT Health Science Center, Medical Director of TIRR...

House Passes New COVID Relief Package Members of the House and Senate are racing to pass President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief...

Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Co-Director of the AAP’s Rehabilitation Medicine...

New Year, New President, New Congress 2021 marks the start of the Biden Presidency and a new session of Congress, which will feature...

Professor Emeritus and Chair Emeritus at Thomas Jefferson University and Member of the AAP’s Public Policy Committee How did you get...

On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 into law to close out the 116th Session of...

By: Danielle Perret Karimi, MD, Natasha Romanoski, DO, Jessica Beardsley, MD and Sterling Haring, DO, the AAP’s AAMC Representatives...

House and Senate appropriations leaders are negotiating spending levels for all 12 FY 2021 appropriations bills as the December 11th...

By: Prakash Jayabalan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor at Northwestern University/ Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and the AAP’s AMA Representative...

Sports Medicine Fellowship Associate Program Director at Montefiore, Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and...

Election 2020 While the upcoming Presidential Election garners most of the headlines, control of the U.S. Congress is also up for grabs....

Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and Distinguished Member of the AAP How...

Congress Expected to Pass Stopgap Funding Plan The Senate is expected to pass a temporary funding bill, known as a Continuing Resolution...

By: Amber Clark, MD, Resident Physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Former Advancement Representative for the AAP’s...