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Advocacy Grand Rounds: Leverage the Rulemaking Process to Impact Policy
October 13, 2022 @ 1:00 pm–2:00 pm EDT
Register now for the October 2022 installment of Doctors for America’s Advocacy Grand Rounds.
There are many ways to advocate to create positive change in health care. A lesser understood channel is providing input and direction on the process that federal agencies use to make rules that implement laws passed by Congress. Join Arkaprava Deb, MD, MPH, to learn about how to provide public comment into the rulemaking process which can result in powerful changes within public health.
Session Speaker:
Arkaprava Deb, MD, MPH
Arka is a psychiatrist and preventive medicine physician. He has previously been a physician working for New York City’s public hospitals. He has now transitioned to Full Time work with the Federal Government while maintaining clinical practice and residency teaching responsibilities.
His work for the Federal Government is at CMS. At CMS, he works on teams developing payment policies with annual regulatory updates for the medicare physician fee schedule, outpatient prospective payment system, clinical lab fee schedule, and other payment systems. As an HHS medical officer and psychiatrist, he is also called on to consult on a variety of national behavioral health policy issues.
While previously leading the gun violence prevention action area at DfA, he helped to organize the DfA 2021 campaign to voice members’ opinion on ghost gun related safety measures to the ATF. This required thousands of DfA members to participate in the ATF rule making process.