Last week AAHKS joined our orthopaedic colleagues in writing to Congress and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). First, we urged Congressional leadership to address Medicare Physician Payment reform, after the failure to do so at the end of 2024 and again at the start of 2025. Then we expressed our disappointment to Congressional leadership at the 57% cut to the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRPs), and specifically the elimination of the Peer-Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program (PRORP) and asked for this to be reversed for 2026. Finally, we wrote to the acting director of the NIH to express our opposition to the recently announced policy imposing a 15% cap on indirect cost recovery for NIH grants. For more, read the letters:
- Sign on Letter to Congress regarding physician payment reform
- Sign on Letter to Congress regarding the elimination of the DoD’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, which includes the Peer-Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program (PRORP)
- Sign on Letter to NIH in opposition to the policy imposing a 15% cap on indirect cost recovery for NIH grants
