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H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

Food and Drug Revitalization Act: to provide for reasonable limits for conflicts of interest on FDA advisory committees and to stimulate pediatric device development. Also, to include unique device identification systems for medical devices. (check on this) H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 759 - The Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009: to provide for the safety of medical devices manufactured in foreign countries. H.R. 1548 - Pathway for Biosimilars Act: provides a pathway for the FDA approval of complex biological products from a reference product. H.R. 1427/S.726 - Promoting Innovation and Access Life-Saving Medicare Act: establishes a pathway for the FDA to approve more affordable copies of biotech and establish user fees for these products.

H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

Food and Drug Revitalization Act: to provide for reasonable limits for conflicts of interest on FDA advisory committees and to stimulate pediatric device development. Also, to include unique device identification systems for medical devices. (check on this) H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 759 - The Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009: to provide for the safety of medical devices manufactured in foreign countries. H.R. 1548 - Pathway for Biosimilars Act: provides a pathway for the FDA approval of complex biological products from a reference product. H.R. 1427/S.726 - Promoting Innovation and Access Life-Saving Medicare Act: establishes a pathway for the FDA to approve more affordable copies of biotech and establish user fees for these products.

H.R. 1493 - Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2009: Ensure patient access to quality health care by exempting health care professionals from the Federal antitrust laws in their negotiations with health plans and health insurance issuers.

H.R. 1493 - Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2009: Ensure patient access to quality health care by exempting health care professionals from the Federal antitrust laws in their negotiations with health plans and health insurance issuers.

H.R. 1493 - Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2009: Ensure patient access to quality health care by exempting health care professionals from the Federal antitrust laws in their negotiations with health plans and health insurance issuers.

H.R. 1493 - Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2009: Ensure patient access to quality health care by exempting health care professionals from the Federal antitrust laws in their negotiations with health plans and health insurance issuers.

H.R. 1493 - Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2009: Ensure patient access to quality health care by exempting health care professionals from the Federal antitrust laws in their negotiations with health plans and health insurance issuers.

Food and Drug Revitalization Act: to provide for reasonable limits for conflicts of interest on FDA advisory committees and to stimulate pediatric device development. Also, to include unique device identification systems for medical devices. (check on this) H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 759 - The Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009: to provide for the safety of medical devices manufactured in foreign countries. H.R. 1548 - Pathway for Biosimilars Act: provides a pathway for the FDA approval of complex biological products from a reference product. H.R. 1427/S.726 - Promoting Innovation and Access Life-Saving Medicare Act: establishes a pathway for the FDA to approve more affordable copies of biotech and establish user fees for these products.

H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time: Amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes.

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time: Amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes.

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

Food and Drug Revitalization Act: to provide for reasonable limits for conflicts of interest on FDA advisory committees and to stimulate pediatric device development. Also, to include unique device identification systems for medical devices. (check on this) H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 759 - The Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009: to provide for the safety of medical devices manufactured in foreign countries. H.R. 1548 - Pathway for Biosimilars Act: provides a pathway for the FDA approval of complex biological products from a reference product. H.R. 1427/S.726 - Promoting Innovation and Access Life-Saving Medicare Act: establishes a pathway for the FDA to approve more affordable copies of biotech and establish user fees for these products.

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Access to Care Act: enact a "stacked cap" on all liability payments awarded to medical liability suits against ob/gynocologists. S.45 - Medical Care Access Protection Act of 2009: improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system. Prompt Payment Improvement Act of 2009

Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Access to Care Act: enact a "stacked cap" on all liability payments awarded to medical liability suits against ob/gynecologists. S.45 - Medical Care Access Protection Act of 2009: improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system. Prompt Payment Improvement Act of 2009

Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Access to Care Act: enact a "stacked cap" on all liability payments awarded to medical liability suits against ob/gynecologists. S.45 - Medical Care Access Protection Act of 2009: improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system. Prompt Payment Improvement Act of 2009

H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

Food and Drug Revitalization Act: to provide for reasonable limits for conflicts of interest on FDA advisory committees and to stimulate pediatric device development. Also, to include unique device identification systems for medical devices. (check on this) H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 759 - The Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009: to provide for the safety of medical devices manufactured in foreign countries. H.R. 1548 - Pathway for Biosimilars Act: provides a pathway for the FDA approval of complex biological products from a reference product. H.R. 1427/S.726 - Promoting Innovation and Access Life-Saving Medicare Act: establishes a pathway for the FDA to approve more affordable copies of biotech and establish user fees for these products.

H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

Food and Drug Revitalization Act: to provide for reasonable limits for conflicts of interest on FDA advisory committees and to stimulate pediatric device development. Also, to include unique device identification systems for medical devices. (check on this) H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 759 - The Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009: to provide for the safety of medical devices manufactured in foreign countries. H.R. 1548 - Pathway for Biosimilars Act: provides a pathway for the FDA approval of complex biological products from a reference product. H.R. 1427/S.726 - Promoting Innovation and Access Life-Saving Medicare Act: establishes a pathway for the FDA to approve more affordable copies of biotech and establish user fees for these products.

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

Trauma Appropriations H.R. 3326/S.9975 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 H.R. _____/S.______ - Supplemental Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 H.R. _____/S.______ - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2011 H.R. _____/S.______ - Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations Act, 2011

Trauma Appropriations H.R. 3326/S.9975 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 H.R. _____/S.______ - Supplemental Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 H.R. _____/S.______ - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2011 H.R. _____/S.______ - Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations Act, 2011

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009 H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Health Information Technology Meaningful Use Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. Surgical Workforce Shortage

H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009 H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010 H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010 H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Surgical Workforce Shortage Truth and Transparency .

H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes.

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009: ensure investments in health to produce interoperable and compatible systems/programs. H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA): funding to help award recipients defray the cost of data collection re quirements initiated pursuant to such Act, and for other purposes. Practice Expense Payment Under Medicare: ensure awareness for the rising cost of practice expenses and the levels paid through Medicare. Payment of Teaching Physicians Under Medicare: ensure that physicians who teach future healers are adequately reimbursed. Payment of Graduate Medical Education Under Medicare: promote ample/adequate federal assistance to individuals enrolled in medical school who can afford the cost. Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services.

Food and Drug Revitalization Act: to provide for reasonable limits for conflicts of interest on FDA advisory committees and to stimulate pediatric device development. Also, to include unique device identification systems for medical devices. H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 759 - The Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009: to provide for the safety of medical devices manufactured in foreign countries. H.R. 1548 - Pathway for Biosimilars Act: provides a pathway for the FDA approval of complex biological products from a reference product. H.R. 1427/S.726 - Promoting Innovation and Access Life-Saving Medicare Act: establishes a pathway for the FDA to approve more affordable copies of biotech and establish user fees for these products.

Food and Drug Revitalization Act: to provide for reasonable limits for conflicts of interest on FDA advisory committees and to stimulate pediatric device development. Also, to include unique device identification systems for medical devices. H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 759 - The Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009: to provide for the safety of medical devices manufactured in foreign countries. H.R. 1548 - Pathway for Biosimilars Act: provides a pathway for the FDA approval of complex biological products from a reference product. H.R. 1427/S.726 - Promoting Innovation and Access Life-Saving Medicare Act: establishes a pathway for the FDA to approve more affordable copies of biotech and establish user fees for these products.

H.R. 1493 - Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2009: Ensure patient access to quality health care by exempting health care professionals from the Federal antitrust laws in their negotiations with health plans and health insurance issuers.

Food and Drug Revitalization Act: to provide for reasonable limits for conflicts of interest on FDA advisory committees and to stimulate pediatric device development. Also, to include unique device identification systems for medical devices. H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. H.R. 759 - The Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009: to provide for the safety of medical devices manufactured in foreign countries. H.R. 1548 - Pathway for Biosimilars Act: provides a pathway for the FDA approval of complex biological products from a reference product. H.R. 1427/S.726 - Promoting Innovation and Access Life-Saving Medicare Act: establishes a pathway for the FDA to approve more affordable copies of biotech and establish user fees for these products.

H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a lingitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes.

H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009: ensure investments in health to produce interoperable and compatible systems/programs. H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA): funding to help award recipients defray the cost of data collection re quirements initiated pursuant to such Act, and for other purposes. Practice Expense Payment Under Medicare: ensure awareness for the rising cost of practice expenses and the levels paid through Medicare. Payment of Teaching Physicians Under Medicare: ensure that physicians who teach future healers are adequately reimbursed. Payment of Graduate Medical Education Under Medicare: promote ample/adequate federal assistance to individuals enrolled in medical school who can afford the cost. Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services.