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2/22/18 EMERGENCY MOC ACTION – EMAIL/CALL Key Senators – We Are winning, but need your help! BACKGROUND/Update on MOC: The original MOC Bills (HB81/SB628) have died without a hearing in committee. HOWEVER, Rep. Dr. Julio Gonzalez was able to place similar language into a House Department of Health Bill (HB1047) on (on 2/21/18). We are asking you to contact Key Senate leaders to encourage them to do the same so the anti-MOC legislation can pass this year. The new language accomplishes much of the same as the original bills, but would require a Medical staff vote to approve ANY MOC requirement for each speciality if MOC is to be required for medical staff privileges. We beleive this is a reasonable compromise at this point to help protect Florida doctors and patients from the out of control MOC industry. Please click the link to email the key senators. If you can, then call Senator Grimsley to ask her to add it to SB 1486 Click Link to email and then CALL SENATOR GRIMSELY's OFFICE. Leave message saying "Please insert MOC langauge from HB1047 into SB1486"! Senator Grimsley – (850) 487-5026 |
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Dear Senator Grimsely, Steube, Senate President Negron and key leaders in the Florida Senate, We are encouraged that the House modified the Department of Health Bill HB 1047 to include valuable language to protect florida patient and doctors from an out-of-control MOC industry. The Maintenance of Certification (MOC) industry is making tens of millions each year on pointless testing and data collection that has been scientifically shown to do nothing to help quality of patient care. Doctors who do not do MOC are being kept off of hospital staffs and are threatened with being excluded from insurance company provider panels. The bottom line is that patients are losing access to their doctors due to costly MOC requirements that do nothing to help the patients. HB 1047 (the "Department of Health" bill) was amended with comprimise language to control MOC – the language is nearly identical to what has already passed in the state of Texas. The language would allow MOC in hospitals if the doctors on the medical staff voted to approve MOC in their hospital. This is a reasonable compromise and we ask your support. We ask that you support effots to pass this in the Senate. Senator Grimsely could support inclusion of this in her companion bill in the Senate (SB 1486). However, more support is needed from leadership – please allow a new SB1486 with MOC lanaguge to be heard in Rules committee and then the Senate floor as soon as possible. Thank you for your support of continued access to high quality medical care in Florida. Respectfully, |
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1. Paste these emails in the “to” line of an email. grimsley.denise@flsenate.gov; negron.joe@flsenate.gov; steube.greg@flsenate.gov; simpson.wilton@flsenate.gov; braynon.oscar@flsenate.gov; bradley.rob@flsenate.gov; flores.anitere@flsenate.gov;dmckalip@neuro3.net; benacquisto.lizbeth@flsenate.gov;Julio.Gonzalez@myfloridahouse.gov 2. Paste into Subject – Support HB 1047 MOC Language in Senate 3. Compose an email explaining why –OR- Paste this into an email body (supplement with your own details if you can). Dear Senator Grimsely, Steube, Senate President Negron and key leaders in the Florida Senate, We are encourage that the House modified the Department of Health Bill HB 1047 to include valubale language to protect florida patient and doctors from an out of control MOC industry. The Maintenance of Certification (MOC) indistry is making tens of millions each year on pointless testing and data collection that has been scientifically shown to do nothing to help quality of patient care. Doctors who do not do MOC are being kept off of hospital staffs and are threatened with being excluded from insurance company provider panels. The bottom line is that patients are losing access to their doctors due to costly MOC requirements that do nothing to help the patients. HB 1047 (the "Department of Health" bill) was amended with comprimise language to control MOC – the language is nearly identical to what has already passed in the state of Texas. The language would allow MOC in hospitals if the doctors on the medical staff voted to approve MOC in their hospital. This is a reasonable compromise and we ask your support. We ask that you support effots to pass this in the Senate. Senator Grimsely could support inclusion of this in her companion bill in the Senate (SB 1486). However, more support is needed from leadership – please allow a new SB1486 with MOC lanaguge to be heard in Rules committee and then the Senate floor as soon as possible. Thank you for your support of continued access to high quality medical care in Florida. Respectfully, |
I am happy to report that because of your support, the Florida chapter of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is up and running. We are in a position to make medical practice in Florida great for physicians and patients – despite the overbearing posture of the government, insurance companies and hospitals. We have it in our power to save the medical profession. Our chapter will be working to providing education to our members on how to set up practices that thrive, working to promote freedom and choice in medical care and will be advocating for you in Tallahassee, the private sector and through media outreach. We will need your continued support to do so. Soon we will be launching a voluntary fundraising drive for our chapters. There will be no dues and no arm twisting, just give what you can. More importantly, we will be counting on you to help us grow as a chapter by recruiting new AAPS members, helping us in committee work and hosting us in regional meetings of our state chapter. The future is bright with AAPS-FL and on behalf of our new board, I thank you for your continued membership and involvement!