Stop Medicare's Unprecedented Anesthesia Payment Cuts



Dear AANA Member:

Medicare has proposed major cuts in anesthesia reimbursements for services provided by CRNAs and anesthesiologists alike. Will you take action today to help reverse these cuts?

Contact Your Legislator Today!

It’s true. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed cutting anesthesia reimbursement by up to 13 percent in 2007 for every anesthesia service you provide Medicare patients. Your AANA has met with CMS. AANA has provided comments to CMS to fight these proposed cuts. The agency has heard from AANA and CRNAs.

But to reverse these anesthesia cuts, which affect both CRNAs and anesthesiologists, CMS needs to hear from your elected members of the U.S. House and Senate. And your elected officials must hear from CRNAs, to stop the Medicare anesthesia cuts that will hurt patients’ access to healthcare services.

Now is the time to make your voice heard!

Your U.S. Representative’s and Senators’ voices on this issue are particularly important. Will you take a moment to send a message today – to alert your legislators about the Medicare anesthesia reimbursement cuts, and to ask them to contact the Medicare agency to stop them?

The most effective way for you to communicate your message is to make a phone call using the speaking points. Next best is to send a custom letter via mail or fax, and/or to send a form letter via mail or fax. The system automatically addresses your letter to the proper street address for you to print. Though this system does give you an email option, emails do not get much attention on Capitol Hill from members of Congress, and we strongly recommend you use one of the other options to send the most effective message.

To find out more, and to contact your own legislators, click the Take Action Today button above. For all you do for your patients, practice and profession of nurse anesthesia, thank you.


Sincerely,

Terry Wicks, CRNA MHS
President
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists