If you have a moment, you might want to support midwifery. This is from The American College of Nurse Midwifery:
As many of you know, the ACNM has been working on making Medicare reimbursement equitable for Certified Nurse Midwives. They are currently reimbursed at only 65% of what physicians make. NPs and PAs currently receive 85%. The Medicare legislation raising the rates for CNMs may be introduced as early as next week, and they need to recruit as many cosponsors as possible this week.
Please take a few minutes to call your Representative in Congress and your two Senators and ask them to co-sponsor the Midwifery Care Access and Reimbursement Act of 2007 (HR 864 and S 507). If you speak to a staff person who wants more information to be forwarded to them, you can find talking points, the ACNM’s position paper, and the ACOG and ANA letter of support at: http://www.midwife.org/legislative.cfm?id=1090
You can find your Representative and Senators, along with their phone numbers, by entering your address at this link: http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/index.htm
More information about the legislation is available at the ACNM web site at: http://capwiz.com/acnm/issues/bills/
Please make the call and ask friends, family and clients to call too!
Kate Harrod is coordinating this effort and would appreciate it if you would let her know what the staff at the office tells you so she can follow up: kate@the-harrods.com
Many thanks!