Contact us at AdvocacyCouncil@acaai.org or 847-427-1200.
2025 Strike Force
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.
AAN Capitol Hill Day
The Allergy and Asthma Network (AAN) invited the College to lobby on Capitol Hill with them on May 7. AAN Board Chair Dennis Williams and Executive Director Lynda Mitchell also presented the College with an award in appreciation of having the College as a longtime partner.
Lobbying for the College are Advocacy Council Chair Dr. Travis Miller; Executive Director, Advocacy and Government Affairs Dr. J. Allen Meadows; Advocacy Council members Dr. Andrej Petrov and Dr. Melinda Rathkopf; ACAAI President, Dr. James Tracy; Advocacy Council Vice Chair Dr. J. Wesley Sublett; Advocacy Council members Dr. Lawrence DuBuske and Dr. Amar Dixit.
