EMERGENCY ALERT 2/22/18 – Email/Call Key Senate Committee Members to Stop Mandatory MOC in Florida.

2/22/18 EMERGENCY MOC ACTION – EMAIL/CALL Key Senators – We Are winning, but need your help!
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BACKGROUND/Update on MOC: The original MOC Bills (HB81/SB628) have died without a hearing in committee. HOWEVER, Rep. Dr. Julio Gonzalez was able to place similar language into a House Department of Health Bill (HB1047) on (on 2/21/18). We are asking you to contact Key Senate leaders to encourage them to do the same so the anti-MOC legislation can pass this year. The new language accomplishes much of the same as the original bills, but would require a Medical staff vote to approve ANY MOC requirement for each speciality if MOC is to be required for medical staff privileges. We beleive this is a reasonable compromise at this point to help protect Florida doctors and patients from the out of control MOC industry. Please click the link to email the key senators. If you can, then call Senator Grimsley to ask her to add it to SB 1486

Click Link to email and then CALL SENATOR GRIMSELY's OFFICE.   Leave message saying "Please insert MOC langauge from HB1047 into SB1486"!

Senator Grimsley – (850) 487-5026

Dear Senator Grimsely, Steube, Senate President Negron and key leaders in the Florida Senate,

We are encouraged that the House modified the Department of Health Bill HB 1047 to include valuable language to protect florida patient and doctors from an out-of-control MOC industry. The Maintenance of Certification (MOC) industry is making tens of millions each year on pointless testing and data collection that has been scientifically shown to do nothing to help quality of patient care.  Doctors who do not do MOC are being kept off of hospital staffs and are threatened with being excluded from insurance company provider panels.

The bottom line is that patients are losing access to their doctors due to costly MOC requirements that do nothing to help the patients.

HB 1047 (the "Department of Health" bill) was amended with comprimise language to control MOC – the language is nearly identical to what has already passed in the state of Texas. The language would allow MOC in hospitals if the doctors on the medical staff voted to approve MOC in their hospital. This is a reasonable compromise and we ask your support.

We ask that you support effots to pass this in the Senate. Senator Grimsely could support inclusion of this in her companion bill in the Senate (SB 1486).

However, more support is needed from leadership – please allow a new SB1486 with MOC lanaguge to be heard in Rules committee and then the Senate floor as soon as possible.

Thank you for your support of continued access to high quality medical care in Florida.

Respectfully,

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1. Paste these emails in the “to” line of an email.

grimsley.denise@flsenate.gov; negron.joe@flsenate.gov; steube.greg@flsenate.gov; simpson.wilton@flsenate.gov; braynon.oscar@flsenate.gov; bradley.rob@flsenate.gov; flores.anitere@flsenate.gov;dmckalip@neuro3.net; benacquisto.lizbeth@flsenate.gov;Julio.Gonzalez@myfloridahouse.gov

2.    Paste into Subject –    Support HB 1047 MOC Language in Senate

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Dear Senator Grimsely, Steube, Senate President Negron and key leaders in the Florida Senate,

We are encourage that the House modified the Department of Health Bill HB 1047 to include valubale language to protect florida patient and doctors from an out of control MOC industry. The Maintenance of Certification (MOC) indistry is making tens of millions each year on pointless testing and data collection that has been scientifically shown to do nothing to help quality of patient care.  Doctors who do not do MOC are being kept off of hospital staffs and are threatened with being excluded from insurance company provider panels.

The bottom line is that patients are losing access to their doctors due to costly MOC requirements that do nothing to help the patients.

HB 1047 (the "Department of Health" bill) was amended with comprimise language to control MOC – the language is nearly identical to what has already passed in the state of Texas. The language would allow MOC in hospitals if the doctors on the medical staff voted to approve MOC in their hospital. This is a reasonable compromise and we ask your support.

We ask that you support effots to pass this in the Senate. Senator Grimsely could support inclusion of this in her companion bill in the Senate (SB 1486).

However, more support is needed from leadership – please allow a new SB1486 with MOC lanaguge to be heard in Rules committee and then the Senate floor as soon as possible.

Thank you for your support of continued access to high quality medical care in Florida.

Respectfully,

 

MOC Battle in Florida Continues. Join the Fight NOW! (11/17)

Go to MOC Action Center to learn how you can act to stop MOC in Florida in the 2018 Legislative Session.

Florida doctors have another chance to outlaw mandated MOC in Florida. HB81/SB628 would ban hospitals, insurance companies and the Board of Medicine from requiring MOC to be part of a medical staff, insurance panel or to gain a license in Florida.

Learn more details in our recent Special edition MOC Newsletter.

Last year, the bill made progress in the House but died in the Senate when the FMA authored and had passed language that deleted the entire bill.  Now the FMA has modified its policy to state they will only seek to stop mandated MOC for licensure, (not for hospital privileges or insurance company contracts). FMA leadership was adamant, in public at the FMA annual meeting in August, that the hospitals should be allowed to force MOC on doctors.

Meanwhile, the Florida AAPS is already engaged in the battle, responding to the CEO of American Board of Pathology’s ludicrous claims that MOC is required to maintain quality of care in the Tampa Bay Times. Dr. Johnson makes over $500,000 a year on MOC. The letter in response was published the next day from the President of the Florida AAPS, Dr. McKalip.

Now is your chance to help.  In the Coming weeks, the Florida AAPS will be asking you to visit Senators in your districts to ask them to pass SB623 and to prevent it from any meaningful change in the process.

Stay tuned to the MOC ACTION CENTER at FLAAPS.ORG!