Healthcare (Financing) Reform Resource Page
It is crucial for Radiologists to be aware of health care reform developments currently afoot in the federal and local (MA) arena and to understand how they affect us. MRS is actively working on behalf of its members, has been engaged in the political process and provides this resource page for its members to peruse important documents related to the process.
Massachusetts:
1. Commission Report, Bills, other public items
- Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Bill (MA_S 2170, Sen Moore)
- Report of Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System
- MA H 2178: "An Act relative to Ionizing Radiation, pertaining to physicians delegating to PA procedures using ionizing radiation"
2. MRS Public Statements
- MRS testimony/position statement by Dr.Alan Semine on Special Commission hearings
- Response to S 2170 by MRS, A.Alan Semine, M.D.
- MRS Testimony on H2178, PA Fluorocopy
Federal Economics & Health Policy
- ACR Economics and Health Policy Resource Page
- ACR Government Relations news flash page
- ACR Government Relations Home Page
Recommended Reading
- Testing, Testing - No master plan for curbing cost, a bad thing? by Atul Gawande, New Yorker, published on 12/14/2009
- Achieving Health Care Reform by Elliott S.Fisher, MD MPH et.al., published in NEJM 6/11/2009
- The Cost Conundrum by Atul Gawande, published in the New Yorker on 6/1/2009
- The Prescription: An Ample Dose of Disruption by Michael J.Pentecost, MD, published in JACR