The Medicare bill would restore for 18 months $45 million to psychotherapy and related services cut as a result of the five-year review, halt the 10.6% Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) cut, provide a 1.1% update for 2009, and phase in Medicare coinsurance parity.
Key Senators in these targeted states need to hear from their constituents as soon as possible to vote to pass H.R. 6331.
Targets:
- Alaska – Lisa Murkowski (R) and Ted Stevens (R)
- Kansas – Pat Roberts (R)
- Minnesota – Norm Coleman (R)
- Mississippi – Thad Cochran (R) and Roger Wicker (R)
- New Hampshire – John Sununu (R)
- New Mexico – Pete Domenici (R)
- North Carolina – Richard Burr (R) and Elizabeth Dole (R)
- Ohio – George Voinovich (R)
- Pennsylvania – Arlen Specter (R)
- Virginia – John Warner (R)
Phone Call: I am a psychologist and constituent in __________ (state) and I am calling to urge the Senator to vote to pass H.R. 6331. The Medicare bill is critically important to my practice and my patients.
Thanks, Merla
Dr. M. Arnold, PhD, RN Licensed Psychologist - Registered Nurse Psychological Services, Behavioral Health Counseling, Consultation and Education Focused on the Needs of Older Adults Western Suffolk/Eastern Nassau Counties, LI, NY Long Term Care Settings (631) 271-9863 "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) “It is better to know the patient who has the disease than it is to know the disease which the patient has.” Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
