Policy Efforts

Through the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy (ISTP), ASCP remains the leader in implementing essential components of healthcare reform law. Our centers and public policy efforts work together to support regulations that maximize laboratory medicine's role in improving patient health.
60K
Letters to Congress

plus 1,700 comment letters to the FDA generated from ASCP grassroots efforts, opposing the FDA's proposed rule for LDTs.

20K
ASCP Action Alert signatures

opposing the CMS proposed rule to add nursing degrees to the CLIA high and moderate complexity testing personnel requirements.

ASCP Policy Efforts

The ASCP Institute for Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP), in conjunction with ASCP commissions, councils, and the board of directors, oversees the development and review of public policies that benefit pathologists, laboratory professionals, and patients.

ASCP is committed to developing public policies that not only improve the public's health through the practice of laboratory medicine, but also represent the interests of its membership.

Public Policies

ASCP proactively identifies and develops programs and special efforts that advocate for members through policy statements. Topics cover many areas including, but not limited to, the following areas of concern:

  • Patient safety and laboratory quality
  • The future of pathology and laboratory medicine
  • Laboratory workforce
  • Personnel standards and licensure
  • Payment
  • Health information technologies
  • Healthcare system
  • Global health

Patient-Centered Policy Priorities

ASCP establishes the following issues as its current Patient-Centered Policy Priorities. The priorities represent a patient-centered agenda that will be advanced throughout the organization and provide guidance in science, technology, policy, and practice.

Current Priorities (PDF)

“ ASCP is dedicated to advocating for the healthcare needs of you and your patients and promoting policies that support laboratory quality and patient safety.”

Steven Kroft, MD, FASCP, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI