Dear AAPS Action Team,

Please contact your Senator, ask for their Health Legislative Assistant (LA), tell their health LA you are a doctor and briefly explain why the Federal Government should not be promoting HEALTH IT including lack of privacy due to disclosure rule under HIPAA.

Find your Senator here- http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Click here to read the letter we sent to the Senate last week in opposition to this bill.

S. 2408: Medicare Electronic Medication and Safety Protection (E-MEDS) Act of 2007

12/5/2007--Introduced.

Medicare Electronic Medication and Safety Protection (E-MEDS) Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) make incentive payments for physician use of an electronic prescription drug program (E-prescribing); and (2) reduce by 10% the fee schedule amount for failure to use E-prescribing. Directs the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to report to Congress on progress on implementing E-prescribing under the Medicare electronic prescription drug program.

Co-sponsors

Sen. John Kerry [D-MA]
Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]
Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D-NM]
Sen. Hillary Clinton [D-NY]
Sen. Norm Coleman [R-MN]
Sen. Bob Corker [R-TN]
Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. John Ensign [R-NV]
Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I-CT]
Sen. Mel Martinez [R-FL]
Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME]
Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D-MI]
Sen. John Sununu [R-NH]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]

Thanks,
Michael

Michael D. Ostrolenk, MA, MFT
Director of Government Affairs
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
http://www.aapsonline.org
[email protected]
Phone: 301-717-0599
Fax: 240-209-0576