It’s no secret that your practice and your patients have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, changes in practice volume, cuts to payment, and utilization of new technologies to name just a few.
There are 435 seats in U.S. House of Representatives. Following the constitutionally mandated census every 10 years, these 435 seats are redistributed across the 50 states. As a result of the 2020 census and the shift of where Americans are living, seven states (California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia) each lost a single congressional district, which meant that those seats were redistributed to states with increasing populations: Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon each gained a seat, while Texas gained two.
The output of 117th Congress has been focused on landmark legislative agendas and significant yet temporary COVID-19 related policies, but also has been limited by an ever-deepening political divide.
In the May issue, I walked you through the Section’s legislative and advocacy priorities for the 117th Congress.
