Spring 2009 BOG Resolutions

[ Note: The text of resolutions 1-S09 thru 29-F09 is available to download in Adobe Acrobat PDF format and Microsoft Word 6.0/7.0 format. ]

Twenty-nine resolutions will be heard at the Spring 2009 Board of Governors Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Please review each resolution and then indicate your support or opposition by completing the electronic response form by April 2, 2009. Your comments will be used as part of his testimony on behalf of the chapter at the BOG meeting.

After reading the resolutions, please send your comments indicating whether or not you support a resolution by emailing ACP Montana Chapter Governor, James Yturri, MD, FACP.

Resolution 1–S09. Developing a Work Plan to Reverse the CMS Enacted Reduction in DXA Reimbursement
(Sponsor: Arizona Chapter)

Resolution 2–S09. Advocating for an “After Hours” CPT Code
(Sponsor: Massachusetts Chapter)

Resolution 3–S09. Advocating for a Handoff-Admission Coordination-of-Care CPT Code
(Sponsor: Massachusetts Chapter)

Resolution 4–S09. Seeking Legislation to Mandate Adequate Reimbursement for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Recommended Vaccines
(Sponsor: New York Chapter)

Resolution 5–S09. Seeking Regulation and/or Legislation that Requires Healthcare Bills to be Uniform and Written so that Patients with Average Health Literacy Can Understand Them
(Sponsor: New York Chapter)

Resolution 6–S09. Requesting Liability Insurance Carriers Study Criteria for Internists Who Solely Practice Outpatient Care and Consider a Different Insurance Rate Structure if Warranted
(Sponsor: Rhode Island Chapter)

Resolution 7–S09. Working with Other Organizations to Propose a Third Party Payer Processing Deadline for Completed Applications from Physicians Entering Practice
(Sponsor: West Virginia Chapter)

Resolution 8–S09. Working with Legislators to Require that Insurers Develop Standard Prescription and Procedure Forms to Conduct Business in California
(Sponsor: Northern California Chapter)

Resolution 9–S09. Adopting a Single Definition of Medical Necessity
(Sponsor: Northern California Chapter)

Resolution 10–S09. Developing a Proposal for a Single-Payer System
(Sponsor: New York Chapter)

Resolution 11–S09. Supporting the Immediate Adoption of a Single-Payer Health Insurance System
(Sponsor: Illinois Northern Chapter)

Resolution 12–S09. Considering Public Health Impacts when Determining Funding for Public Works and Infrastructure Improvement Projects
(Sponsor: Illinois Northern Chapter)

Resolution 13–S09. Eliminating Highly-Enriched Uranium (HEU) from Radiopharmaceutical Production
(Sponsor: New Jersey Chapter)

Resolution 14–S09. Developing a National Model for an Advance Directive
(Sponsor: Southern California Region II)

Resolution 15–S09. Supporting Legislation, Promoting Education, and Developing Policy that Makes a Plant-Based Diet Available and Affordable for the U.S. Population
(Sponsor: Maine Chapter)

Resolution 16–S09. Evaluating Recommendations for and Developing a Formal ACP Position on Colorectal Cancer Screening
(Sponsor: Northern California Chapter)

Resolution 17–S09. Opposing the Requirement that Hospitals Screen Patients for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
(Sponsor: Northern California Chapter)

Resolution 18–S09. Administering the Inservice Training Exam (ITE) at an Earlier Date so that Scores are Available for Residents and Internal Medicine Residency Programs by November 1st
(Sponsor: Council of Young Physicians)

Resolution 19–S09. Developing Post-Graduate Courses to Update Hospitalists Entering Office-based Practice
(Sponsor: Delaware Chapter)

CHAPTER SPONSORED RESOLUTION
Resolution 20–S09. Collaborating with the American Osteopathic Association to Increase the Number of Medical Students Who Choose General Internal Medicine Residencies
(Sponsor: Montana Chapter)

Resolution 21–S09. Encouraging Editors of High-Impact Medical Journals to Explicitly Address Costs and Value of Treatments
(Sponsor: Vermont Chapter)

Resolution 22–S09. Developing a Mechanism for Associate Abstract Winners to be Published in an Online Supplement to the Annals of Internal
Medicine
(Sponsor: Council of Associates)

Resolution 23–S09. Supporting an Initiative Designed to Promote Collaboration between Human and Veterinary Medicine
(Sponsor: New Jersey Chapter)

Resolution 24–S09. Providing Medical Students with Advocacy Opportunities and Recognition of Scholarship in Advocacy/Policy Work
(Sponsor: Maryland Chapter)

Resolution 25–S09. Directing the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors to Include Reports from Committee Vice Chairs as a Standing Agenda Item at BOG Meetings
(Sponsor: Class of 2011)

Resolution 26–S09. Disclosing the Dollar Amount of Pharmaceutical Support Provided to Conduct Any ACP Meeting
(Sponsor: New Hampshire Chapter)

Resolution 27–S09. Creating Policy that Requires that Bags Distributed at the ACP Annual Internal Medicine Meeting Display only ACP’s Name and Logo
(Sponsor: Illinois Northern Chapter)

Resolution 28–S09. Adopting a Definition of Internists
(Sponsor: Oklahoma Chapter)

Resolution 29–S09. Supporting an Investigation into the Role of Physicians in Preventing, Detecting and Halting Prisoner Abuse
(Sponsor: Illinois Northern Chapter)

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Jim A. Yturri, MD, FACP
Governor, Montana Chapter

Carrie Reisig
Montana Chapter
Executive Director
Phone: 406-727-7171 ext 205
Email: creisig@bresnan.net