2025 Strike Force Photo Gallery

May 6, 2025 – Members of the College’s Strike Force are advocating for our specialty today – during World Asthma Day and National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month – on Capitol Hill. These members – Travis Miller, MD, Chair, Advocacy Council; J. Wesley Sublett, MD, Vice Chair, Advocacy Council; J. Allen Meadows, MD, Executive Director, Advocacy and Government Affairs; James Tracy, DO, ACAAI President; Todd Mahr, MD, ACAAI Executive Medical Director; Melinda Rathkopf, Advocacy Council Member; Mitchell Grayson, MD; and Purvi Parikh, MD – are focusing on issues most pressing to allergists, their practices and their patients. Such as:

• Medicare payment reform to immediately repeal the 2.83% cut that became effective Jan. 1 and to tie annual reimbursement updates to the Medicare Economic Index
• Fair reimbursement for allergy shots using CPT’s definition of a dose when billing CPT code 95165
• Stopping NIH cuts for valuable allergy research grants
• Reforming commercial insurance issues to standardize and improve prior authorization processes, to reform Pharmacy Benefit Management programs to keep allergy medications available to patients

They met with congressional leaders and policymakers advocating for our issues and continuing to build relationships with these key legislative contacts.