ADVOCACY
To join by phone:
(800) 522-9452
FEDERAL ISSUES
The OSMA is aggressively involved in advocacy efforts related to the most vital issues in medicine today
- National Advocacy Conference
- 2011 OSMA Federal Legislative Agenda
- Oklahoma Congressional Delegation
- 2011 Physician Statement on Health System Reform
- Role of Federal Government in Health System Reform
- Medicare Physician Payment Rates in Oklahoma
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If Congress fails to act by November 30, Medicare and
Tricare payments to physicians will be cut by 25 percent
at the end of the year!
Now is the time for physicians and patients to Act!
Attached is a Physicians’ Grassroots Advocacy Checklist which was distributed to the Oklahoma AMA delegation at the Interim Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates which took place last week. The checklist highlights steps physicians can take to support Federation advocacy efforts on the pending Medicare physician payment cuts. The checklist identifies November 17 as “White Coat Wednesday,” and physicians across the country are asked to call their U.S. Senators and urge them to act before the next scheduled cuts occur on December 1, 2010.
Contact phone numbers for Oklahoma Senators are:
Senator Tom Coburn: (202) 224-5754
Senator Jim Inhofe: (202) 224-4721
Physicians can also utilize the AMA’s grassroots hotline to make calls at (800) 833-6354.
The attached patient handout developed by the AMA can be distributed to your patients or displayed in your waiting room to help educate Medicare and TRICARE patients about the problem. The flyer urges patients to contact their legislators asking them to protect their access to health care using AMA’s patients’ advocacy hotline, at (888) 434-6200.
Additional materials can be found on the AMA’s web site, by visiting www.ama-assn.org/go/Medicarepayment, and selecting the link for AMA Physician Payment Action Kit.
If you have questions regarding this call to action, contact OSMA Executive Director Ken King, or OSMA Associate Executive Director Kathy Musson, at (800) 522-9452 or by e-mail to King@okmed.org or Musson@okmed.org
The time for action is now!! We urge you to be a part of that action.
Physician Grassroots Checklist
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OSMA Physician Leaders Carry OSMA/AMA Message to Capitol Hill
During the AMA National Advocacy Conference this week, Oklahoma attendees, along with OSMA Federal Lobbyist John Montgomery, carried the OSMA’s federal legislative agenda to the Oklahoma Congressional Delegation and their health aids during Capitol Hill visits. read more
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