The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Washington Committee Firearms Task Force is conducting a brief survey of CNS/AANS members regarding their views and experience with firearms and member’s opinions regarding the involvement of organized neurosurgery in advocacy efforts to reduce firearm injury and death and to make firearm ownership as safe as possible.

Each year the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) establish neurosurgery’s legislative and regulatory advocacy priorities for the coming year.

On Sept. 14, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed by voice vote H.R. 3173, the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act. Sponsored by Reps. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), Ami Bera, MD, (D-Calif.) and Larry Bucshon, MD, (R-Ind.), the legislation would streamline and standardize prior authorization in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program.

Neurosurgeons Announce Principles for Reforming the Medicare Physician Payment System

On Feb. 2, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. announced a series of new steps to “reignite” the Cancer Moonshot initiative, with the goal of “ending cancer as we know it” by halving the number of cancer deaths in the United States in the next 25 years.