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Advocacy & Issues: Your Voice on Capitol Hill
Do you want your patients to maintain access to the high quality and lower cost care provided by your ambulatory surgery center? Do you want your facility to thrive, not just survive, in a highly regulatory, cost-conscious, and competitive healthcare marketplace?
The Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society has always served as your voice in the Nation™s Capital. We are in the midst of a campaign to secure passage of legislation that will promote fair Medicare payments to ASCs. We are battling the hospital industry as it threatens the surgeon™s ability to have an ownership interest in an ASC. We are challenging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in its efforts to hyper-regulate our facilities through unnecessarily burdensome Medicare ASC Conditions for Coverage. Simply stated, we have a huge 2009 agenda in Washington, DC. However, the efforts of OOSS™ professional lobbyists are not enough.
The OOSS Advocacy Center is intended to enable you, the progressive ophthalmic surgeon, to make your voice heard on Capital Hill. With a few clicks on the keyboard, in just a few moments time, you can send a message to Capitol Hill. At a time when health care reform is on the table and the lobbying forces of the hospital, insurance, and pharmaceuticals industries are in high gear, policy-makers need to understand that surgical care in an ASC is a solution to meeting the twin goals of expanding access to, and reducing the costs of, health care.
