Legislative Updates

POSTED: October 30th, 2013
POSTED IN: Legislative Updates,

2014 First Annual MOCEP Advocacy Day – Jefferson City

January 22^nd 2014

It is easy to dismiss advocacy as simply “politics” or efforts best left to lobbyists. However, as emergency physicians, you practice advocacy every day. Every time you stand up on behalf of a vulnerable patient, or struggle to obtain the resources you need to provide quality emergency care for your community you are acting as an advocate.

Unfortunately, the challenges that we must face in order to provide high quality care for our patients goes beyond our local emergency departments and hospitals. Laws such as EMTALA, HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act impact our practice on a daily basis. As emergency physicians, we must work together to insure that safe and high quality emergency care continues to be available to our patients – wherever and whenever we are needed!

Join leaders from MoCEP and from around the state of Missouri to discuss advocacy and health policy topics that impact us and our patients on a daily basis.

National issues such as the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) and EMTALA will be discussed.

Our MoCEP governmental consultant team will also review current topics being debated in Jefferson City such as Medicaid Expansion and tort reform.

After presentations from our engaging speakers, MOCEP will arrange group meetings with your state representatives and senators so YOU can be the voice of emergency medicine in Missouri!

Schedule at a Glance

8:30 – 9:00 –Breakfast and Welcome

Larry Slaughter MD, FACEP

MOCEP President

9:00 – 9:30 – Advocacy and Medicine

Rep. Keith Frederick

Health Care Policy Chairman

9:30 – 10:15 – Current National Issues in Emergency Medicine

MOCEP Councilors

10:15- 10:30 – Break

10:30 – 11:00 – Current Emergency Medicine Issues in Jefferson City

Jorgen Schlemeier

MOCEP Governmental Consultant

11:00 – 12:00 – Observe board meeting\lunch

12:00 – Capitol visits

 

RSVP required for attendance, SPACE IS LIMITED (Deadline Jan 1).  Please contact [email protected]