Public Comment Letters
ASN often responds to public requests for information from federal agencies and proactively comments on a variety of issues, ranging from data collection to research agendas and priorities.
- Proposed Interoperability Rule
- ASN Comment Letter Medicare Part D Six Protected Classes
- Provider and Insurer Response to DPDA
- Community Response to Dialysis PATIENTS Demonstration Act
- September 13, 2010: ASN Letter to HHS on HIPPA Changes
- Conragulatory Letter to Secretary Azar
- January 13, 2012: ASN Letter to NIDDK on Strategies for Allocation of Available Resources to Various Grant Funding Mechanisms
- Feburary 3, 2012: ASN Letter on the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Strategic Plan
- March 15, 2012: ASN Letter on PCORI's Draft National Priorities and Research
- March 16, 2012: ASN Letter on AHRQ's Effective Healthcare Program and Comparative Effectiveness Research Enterprise
- May 24, 2012: ASN Letter to the CDC on Collecting Patients' Serum Creatinine Levels
- June 18, 2012: ASN Letter on AHRQ Draft Report on "Laboratory Biomarkers for Assessing Iron Status and Managing Iron Deficiency in Late Stage Chronic Kidney Disease Patients with Anemia"
- December 21, 2012: ASN Letter on Screening for Kidney Disease to the US Preventive Services Task Force
- April 3, 2013: ASN Letter to NIDDK on Sequestration
- April 30, 2013: ASN Letter on NIH Office of Disease Prevention Draft Strategic Plan Priorities
- June 12, 2013: ASN Letter to NIH on Possible Merger of Kidney-Related Study Sections
- September 8, 2014: Community Sign-on Letter Opposing New Federal Travel Restrictions
- January 28, 2015: Community Sign-on Letter Supporting a Single NIH IRB
- June 17, 2015: ASN Letter on AHRQ Management of Renal Masses and Localized Renal Cancer Draft Systematic Review
- August 16, 2015: ASN Comment Letter on Proposed NIH Strategic Plan Framework
- January 6, 2016: ASN Response to Proposed Federal Human Subjects Research Regulation Changes