Advocacy Priorities
Graduate Medical Education and Physician Workforce Shortage
Ensuring a Well-Trained Physician Workforce. Increase Federally Funded Physician Training Programs Request Urologists urge Congress to acknowledge...
Prostate Cancer Screening and Awareness
Eliminating Misdiagnosis and Reducing Wasteful Medicare Spending Every 20 minutes an American man dies from prostate cancer. The American Cancer...
Modernize Law Restricting Coordinated Care (“Stark Law”)
When Congress enacted the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, it replaced a fundamentally flawed reimbursement framework with a program...
The AACU is dedicated to developing and advancing health policy education as it affects urologic practice in order to preserve and promote the professional autonomy of its members and support the highest quality of care for patients.
State Advocacy
Workforce — Scope of Practice
Allowing practitioners to perform procedures they simply aren’t trained to do can only lead to unpredictable outcomes, higher costs and greater...
Uniform Prior Authorization for Prescriptions and Health Services
In an effort to contain health care costs, most health insurers require a physician to obtain "prior authorization" before prescribing certain...
Prostate Cancer Awareness & Assessment
Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in men, and about one man in six will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his...