WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Tim Kaine issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and John Boozman (R-AR) introduced the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Physicist Pay Cap Relief Act, bipartisan legislation that would remove an arbitrary cap on the pay of Therapeutic Medical Physicists (TMPs) and Diagnostic Medical Physicists (DMPs)-physicists who assist radiation oncologists in delivering cancer care and treatment-employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This legislation would also help address staffing shortages of TMPs and DMPs at the VA.
"Our veterans have made tremendous sacrifices and deserve access to world-class, timely health care," said Kaine. "But arbitrary caps on the pay therapeu...