AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGERY

Oppose: H.R. 3164, the Ensuring Community Access to Pharmacist Services (ECAPS) Act, - would allow pharmacists to perform services that would normally only be authorized and covered if they were furnished by a physician. Support: Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act (S.2439/H.R.4731)- increase the number of Graduate Medical Education (GME) residency positions by an additional 2,000 residency positions each year for seven years to tackle the severe physician manpower shortage. Telehealth: calling on Congress to advance access to healthcare through telehealth by ensuring Medicare beneficiaries are able to access the same telehealth services that they have been relying on for the past five years. Oppose: S. 2426, the Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services (ECAPS) Act. - inappropriately allowing pharmacists to perform services that would normally only be authorized and covered if they were furnished by a physician. CMS: expressing deep concerns with the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model in the Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) program. CMS: 2026 Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Comments submitted. Dept of Education: letter to Linda McMahon, Secretary of the Department of Education, expressing concerns with the language limiting student loans in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA, P.L. 119-21) passed by Congress earlier this year. DHS: letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security strongly urging the Secretary to issue clarifying guidance that determines that H-1B physicians entry into the U.S. is in the national interest of the country and therefore exempt from White House proclamation necessitating a payment of $100,000 to accompany each visa petition