Advocacy


 

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Recognizing the need to influence the debates that shape health care policy, NASS established the National Association of Spine Specialists— an IRS-designated 501(c) (6) trade organization—as its advocacy arm. The Association was founded in 1999 and continues to be administered by the North American Spine Society. The Association advocates in the legislative and regulatory arenas for public policies that protect members’ ability to practice medicine and give patients access to the specialists, technologies and treatments they require for quality spine care. All members of the North American Spine Society are members of the Association (unless they opt out), with a portion of member dues allocated to advocacy efforts. The Association relies on its members to advocate on behalf of the spine care field and patients.

The Association is governed by the NASS Executive Committee, with the NASS Advocacy Committee overseeing NASS' advocacy program.

 



NASS Members Join Alliance in DC to Fight for Patient Access to Specialty Care

6/23/2010


 

NASS sent nine members of the Board of Directors and Advocacy Committee to join more than 50 other specialty physicians in Washington, DC at the Alliance of Specialty Medicine fly-in event. The attendees spent three days in Washington speaking with their elected officials about replacing Medicare’s flawed physician reimbursement model, concerns with the recently enacted health care reform law and the need to foster and protect patient access to high quality specialty care.

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