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Current Advocacy Action Alerts -- Your Action Needed  --

Can Your Hospital Afford These Cuts? Can Your Patients And Community?, June 23, 2009

House Reform Bill Cuts Billions from Payments for Hospital Services, June 22, 2009

Oppose Dramatic Hospital Cuts, June 16, 2009 

Reject Cuts to DSH Payments, June 10, 2009 

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act--Provisions of Interest to Hospitals

Legislative Advisories from February and March 2009 

Health-Related Congressional Committees

Committees and Subcommittees with Jurisdiction Over Health Legislation, 111th Congress (May 2009)

Legislative Manual

A comprehensive manual that offers information on the importance of working with Congress and how to effectively communicate with legislators.  (January 2009)

Congressional Scorecard

111th Congress

110th Congress

109th Congress

 Letters Circulated on the Hill

HOUSE:

Neal-Tiberi Letter  (Urging the Obama Administration to withdraw the capital indirect medical education (IME) cut) CLOSED as of May 22, 2009: 220 Signers

Brady-Wilson Letter (Urging the Obama Administration to consider the economic health of hospitals as part of the economic recovery strategy) CLOSED as of January 16, 2009: 130 Signers

Marshall-King Letter  (Urging CMS to pull capital IME cut from IPPS rule) CLOSED  as of July 28, 2008: 210 Signers

Neal-English Letter  (Opposing Proposed FY2009 Budget Cuts) As of March 5, 2008:265 Signers

Tubbs Jones-Porter Letter (Urging IRS to improve its new draft Schedule H) As of November 7, 2007:307 Signers

Altmire-Welch Letter (Urging Block of Behavioral Offset Implementation),  As of September 20, 2007

Lewis-Weller Letter  (Opposing CMS' Proposed Medicare Cuts), As of June 12, 2007: 269 Signers

Neal-English Letter   (Opposing Medicare and Medicaid Cuts) As of March 15, 2007: 223 Signers

Eshoo-King Letter (Opposing Medicaid cuts)  As of February 26, 2007:  226 Signers


 SENATE:

Schumer-Roberts (Urging CMS to withdraw the capital indirect medical education (IME) cut that was included in last year's Medicare Inpatient PPS rule) CLOSED as of May 12, 2009: 56 Signers

Clinton-Schumer-Specter Letter (Urging CMS to pull capital IME cut from IPPS rule) CLOSED  as of July 28, 2008: 51 Signers

Lincoln-Roberts Letter (Opposing Proposed FY2009 Budget Cuts) As of February 29, 2008: 59 Signers

Salazar-Roberts Letter  (Opposing CMS' Proposed Medicare Cuts), As of June 6, 2007: 63 Signers

Lincoln-Roberts Letter  (Opposing Medicare and Medicaid cuts)  As of March 15, 2007:43 Signers

Durbin-Dole Letter  (Opposing Medicaid cuts)  As of February 16, 2007:43 Signers

Bills

SENATE:

S.2819 (37 Cosponsors)   Economic Recovery in Health Care Act of 2008, As of May 21, 2008

HOUSE:

H.R.3533 (237 Cosponsors)   Public and Teaching Hospital Preservation Act, As of April 3, 2008 

H.R.4105 (96 Cosponsors)   Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007, As of June 10, 2008

H.R.5613 (220 Cosponsors)   Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008, As of April 24, 2008

 

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  • Work with your legislators on an advocacy agenda that helps people take care of people.

 

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