The Secretary of the Department Health and Human Services (HHS), Sylvia Burwell, announced today that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to provide coverage for the National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP). While this proposal still must go through a public comment period, it is expected to go into force before President Obama...
The Endocrine Society continues its advocacy and educational efforts concerning the impact seen in patients’ lives linked to exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). On February 29, Endocrine Society members Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, MD; Rémy Slama, PhD; and Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP, met with policymakers in the European Union to provide scientific expertise, comments, and concerns regarding...
Society Conducts Survey to Assess Barriers and Standard Practices for Hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia continues to be a critical barrier for patients with diabetes to reach their goals. Hypoglycemic unawareness or fear of low blood sugar may lead these individuals to take less insulin than prescribed or for physicians to utilize oral medications that do not contribute to these events. In an effort to understand these issues, the...
On January 27, Endocrine Society attended the 200th meeting of the National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Advisory Council. Society members Lee Kaplan, MD, PhD; Alan Saltiel, PhD; Jerry Palmer, MD; and Joel Elmquist, PhD, DVM, are members of the Council. Endocrine Society member Steven Kahn, MB, CHE, served as an ad hoc...
Obama Unveils FY2017 Budget; Society Disappointed in NIH Decreases
The Obama administration unveiled its annual budget proposal on February 9. The budget proposal would give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) $33.1 billion, a 2.6% raise over 2016. The money would include $680 million for Vice President Biden’s cancer moonshot; $100 million more for the Precision Medicine Initiative’s 1-million-person cohort study; and $45 million...
On December 16, 2015 NIH released its NIH-Wide Strategic Plan, Fiscal Years 2016-2020: Turning Discovery Into Health. The Endocrine Society provided input to the NIH during the strategic planning process and sent a letter to the Director of NIH, Francis Collins, MD, and NIH Principal Deputy Director, Lawrence Tabak, DDS, PhD. In our comments, the...
NIH Clarifies Instructions to Grantees on Incorporating Sex as a Biological Variable
In 2014, in response to requests by the Endocrine Society, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would develop policies to require investigators to account for sex as a fundamental biological variable in NIH-supported preclinical research. The Endocrine Society wholeheartedly supports the goal of ensuring that sex is considered in studies funded by...
Endocrine Society Supports Proper Specialty Care Reimbursement
As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) begins the process to transition physician payment from a system that pays by volume to one that pays for value, the Endocrine Society continues to have concern that new payment models properly value cognitive services and not only focus on procedures. As a result, the Endocrine...
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