On March 7th, a delegation of North Carolina neurologists went to Capitol Hill to meet with North Carolina’s members of the House of Representatives and Senate. Their day on the Hill was in conjunction with the American Academy of Neurology’s 2023 Neurology on the Hill event.
Participants included:
Robert Armstrong, MD
Asheville Neurology Specialists, PA
Asheville, NC
Alan Finkel, MD
Carolina Headache Institute
Durham, NC
Robert Frere, MD
ECU Neurology
Greenville, NC
Amy Guzik, MD
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Winston Salem, NC
Chut Sombutmai, DO
TeleSpecialists, LLC
Concord, NC
W. Alan Skipper, CAE
NC Medical Society
Raleigh, NC
The issues (more detail here) presented in meetings with congressional offices included:
- Medicare Payment System Reform
- Prior Authorization
- Medical Research
