In July, Dr. David F. Penson, past chair of the AUA Public Policy Council, met with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to discuss prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, shared decision-making and AUA guidelines. We recently sat down with Dr. Penson to discuss the meeting and...
On May 16, 2016 five prominent Republican members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, including Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), sent a detailed letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell regarding the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF...
In March, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced the appointment of Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Ph.D., M.D., M.A.S., as chair of the Task Force and Susan J. Curry, Ph.D., as vice chair. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo and Dr. Curry were appointed to these positions by the director of the Agency for...
Late last year, the AUA alerted the urology community to multiple activities at the federal level that threatened a man’s right to prostate cancer screening: a quality measure recommending against PSA screening and a draft research plan from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)...