Advocacy News

In this Bills on the Hill blog, Michael Siget, PAMED's Legislative & Regulatory Counsel, looks at five new health-related bills signed into law in Pennsylvania.

PAMED and state specialty society leaders hosted several prominent state government officials and lawmakers during a busy Board of Trustees meeting held on Feb. 6-7, 2018. The physician leaders also set PAMED's 2018 advocacy priorities.

Thanks to a confusing and convoluted prior authorization process, it took months before a Middletown, Pa., teenager could find relief for his juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

A recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling has already had a significant impact on the practice of medicine regarding how physicians obtain informed consent.

​On Nov. 22, 2017, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a decision on a the statute of limitations for survival actions. Get background on the case and find out what the Court decided.