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BENJAMIN WALLNER
AMERICAN PODIATRIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION · Rockville, MD · registered since 2024
Registered · LDAActive
At a glance
Registered since
2024
Senate LDA system
Clients
1
last 3 years
Filings
5
4 agencies contacted
Activity
filings by quarter
Works on
Specific issues
Medicaid access to podiatry and program integrity; Medicare therapeutic shoe program for patients with diabetes; MATE Act implementation; MACRA/MIPS implementation and Physician Fee Schedule proposed updates as pertains to physicians and providers; Seeking financial and regulatory relief for providers; seeking extension of telehealth provisions; supporting legislation to increase awareness of peripheral artery disease; seeking increases in funding for diabetes awareness education; supporting amputation awareness and prevention legislation; supporting mental health legislation; supporting expanded access for providers and telehealth legislation; supporting prescription drug pricing overhaul legislation; supporting student loan relief and overhaul legislation; supporting wound therapy legislation; supporting legislation to stabilize GME funding; supporting opioid treatment legislation.
Medical student loan assistance; graduate medical education; higher education act reauthorization; student loan reform; student loan forgiveness for providers working in underserved areas.
Requesting that DOD expand the list of eligible board certification bodies to include entities other than American Board of Medical Specialties; moving doctors of podiatric medicine from the Medical Service Corps to the Medical Corps.
Working with VA on creation and implementation of new national standards of practice for podiatrists; seeking increased funding for continuing medical education grants for providers; participating in national standard of practice project.
Implementation of MISSION Act (PL 115-182) and the problems with same as experienced by podiatric physicians and surgeons; seeking increased funding for continuing medical education grants for providers; participating in national standard of practice project.
Medicaid access to podiatry and program integrity; Medicare therapeutic shoe program for patients with diabetes; MATE Act implementation; MACRA/MIPS implementation and Physician Fee Schedule proposed updates as pertains to physicians and providers; Seeking additional pandemic relief for providers; seeking extension of telehealth provisions post public health emergency; supporting legislation to increase awareness of peripheral artery disease; seeking increases in funding for diabetes awareness education; supporting amputation awareness and prevention legislation; supporting mental health legislation; supporting expanded access for providers and telehealth legislation; supporting prescription drug pricing overhaul legislation; supporting student loan relief and overhaul legislation; supporting wound therapy legislation; supporting legislation to stabilize GME funding; supporting opioid treatment legislation.