CONGRESS OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS

S. 1105, No Unreasonable Payments, Coding, or Diagnoses for the Elderly (No UPCODE) Act: Medicare Advantage payment reform S. 1816/H.R.2514, Improving Seniors Timely Access to Care Act of 2025: Prior authorization reform in Medicare Advantage S. 2439/H.R.3890, Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act: Medicare funding for medical residency training H.R.879, Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025: To increase support for physicians and other practitioners in adjusting to Medicare payment changes. H.R. 2443, Reducing Medically Unnecessary Delays in Care Act: To ensure that prior authorization medical decisions under Medicare are determined by physicians. H.R.4331, Access to Claims Data Act: To establish a process to expand access to claims data under certain Federal health plans in order to facilitate research and quality improvement. No Bill: Urging Congress to prevent funding for the proposed CMMI Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model in the Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) program, which expands prior authorization to traditional Medicare. No Bill: Urging Congress to improve data sharing/interoperability, improvements to MACRA's quality payment program, including enhancing the use of clinical data registries

S. 2587/ H.R. 5304, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations: HHS programs funding, including NIH; preventing funding of WISeR prior authorization model