Faced with this requirement, doctors tend to prescribe less of the medicines, so sales plummet.
But various obstacles have slowed mass circumcision campaigns in many countries: a dearth of political or logistical support from governments and traditional leaders; cultural misconceptions; and in some places requirements that doctors, not nurses or physician assistants, perform circumcisions.
Typically, state medical boards, rather than the federal government, impose licensing requirements on doctors, including the type of continuing education they must receive.
The four include restrictions on coverage under health insurance exchanges, state employee insurance and Medicaid, and call for stricter reporting requirements for doctors who perform abortions.
Abortion opponents are also backing a "fetal pain" measure that would ban abortions after 20 weeks, and a bill to place tougher requirements on doctors who perform abortions.
The attempt to limit the abortion window is part of a larger push to prevent women from exercising their reproductive rights — unnecessary waiting periods, physically intrusive sonograms, onerous requirements for doctors who perform abortions, and so on.
To the Editor: A simple policy change — equalizing the licensing requirements for doctors educated abroad and those educated in the United States — would end current physician shortages in half of the states within five years.
The most aggressive effort is under way here in Washington, where lawmakers last year imposed new requirements on doctors to refer patients taking high dosages of opioids — which include hydrocodone, fentanyl, methadone and oxycodone, the active ingredient in OxyContin — for evaluation by a pain specialist if their underlying condition is not improving.
With the the on-going revision of digital standards in healthcare, increasing requirements for doctors, the proliferation of mobile devices and wearable gadgets — along with the market's shift to more patient-focused incentive structures and consumer-centric models — small practices are struggling to keep up.
Abortion rights campaigners, along with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Medical Association, say admitting privileges laws impose medically unnecessary requirements on doctors.
