New Laboratory Workforce Coalition Urges Congress to Address Laboratory Shortages
ASCP and 22 other major national laboratory, pathology, and healthcare organizations have joined forces to urge Congress to tackle the critical personnel shortages affecting the pathology and laboratory workforce. Read
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Take Action! Help Enact the Saving Access to Laboratory Services Act
ASCP encourages you to contact your local Congressional leaders and urge them to support legislation to reform the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule. Find out how this proposed legislation would affect medical laboratories. Read
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ASCP, AMA Support Physician Pay Legislation
ASCP, the American Medical Association, and almost 120 national other physician specialty societies and medical associations are voicing support for legislation providing the Medicare physician payment rates to an annual inflationary update. The measure, known as the Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act, would provide needed financial stability for physician practices. Read
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Register for Webinar: 3D-Printing to Mitigate Local Supply Chain Disruptions
Join us on June 9, when ASCP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention host their second session in the new webinar series, Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community. Juan Gomez, PhD, a research associate in the Physics Department at Texas State University, will present a case study on how his team re-purposed existing and idle 3D printers at Texas State to produce nasal swabs in support of the City of Austin’s COVID-19 testing response. Read
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