Advocacy: About
About Advocacy
The P.A.D. Coalition works to advocate for health care policies and practices that ensure access to evidence-based diagnostic and treatment strategies to improve P.A.D. outcomes.
Key goals include:
- Obtain reimbursement for supervised P.A.D. exercise rehabilitation therapy
- Broaden reimbursement for the performance of the ankle-brachial index (ABI)
- Add P.A.D. to the Congressional mandate
- Increase government funding of P.A.D. research
News:
June 2010: Action Alert: Contact Your Representative in Congress and Urge Him/Her to Cosponsor the PAD Resolution (H.Res 1438). Click here for more information.
April 30, 2008: P.A.D. Coalition’s Joshua Beckman, MD Testifies at Centers or Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Town Hall Meeting of the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory. Click here to read the meeting transcript.
August 22, 2007: Senate Resolution Designates September as National P.A.D. Awareness Month. Click here to read the pdf.
