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Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MFS)

• ASTRO Submits Comment Letter to CMS on the Proposed Rule for Calendar Year 2009 (8/08)
• Extended Comment Letter to CMS on the Proposed Rule for Calendar Year 2008 (4/08)
• ASTRO Submits Comment Letter to CMS on the Final Rule for Calendar Year 2008(12/07)

• ASTRO Submits Comment Letter to CMS on the Proposed Rule for Calendar Year 2008 (8/07)

Cancer Research Funding

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

Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS)

• ASTRO Submits Comment Letter to CMS on the Hospital Outpatient Propsed Rule for Calendar Year 2009
• ASTRO Submits Comment Letter to CMS on the Hospital Outpatient Final Rule for Calendar Year 2008 (12/07)

• ASTRO Submits Comment Letter to CMS on the Hospital Outpatient Proposed Rule for Calendar Year 2008 (9/07)

Additional Hospital Outpatient Information

• Revised CMS Coding Policy for Brachytherapy Sources (06/07)

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• Comments on Proposed Prostate Brachytherapy Rule (10/08)
• Comments to the NRC for the Cesium Chloride Roundtable (10/08)

CRS Report for Congress

• Medicare: Payments to Physicians (1/08)

CBO Testimony

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