Appointments with Legislators
Sembert, Fran - Eagle
It’s time to set-up appointments with our legislators for next Wednesday. On the attached spreadsheet, I have the advocacy members that are attended high-lighted in yellow. Please make sure to set up appointments for your group. The cities in red, don’t have anyone on the committee. I need volunteers to set up appointments for those folks. We can start appointments at 8:30 but we need to have everyone over to Tillis’ office at 9:30.
Thanks,
Fran Sembert, CMPE
Director, Business Services
Eagle Physicians and Associates, PA
324 W Wendover Ave, Suite 200
PO Box 14520
Greensboro, NC 27415-4520
336-268-3201 (P) 336-275-0812 (F)
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Sembert, Fran - Eagle
http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChamber=House
http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChamber=senate
Beth,
You probably should get up with Claye Frank and schedule together. The links above will take you to the House and Senate webpages. Click on who you want to schedule with in your district and it will bring up their contact info. Call their office and tell them that you will be in Raleigh Wednesday and would like to schedule a time in the morning to come by and visit with your legislator or their legislative assistants (sometimes it’s better to get them as they probably know more). See links below that lists the leg assts.
http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/reports/member-clerk.pl?Chamber=House&SortBy=Member
http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/reports/member-clerk.pl?Chamber=Senate
I’m copying everyone on this so you will have the links.
Fran Sembert, CMPE
Director, Business Services
Eagle Physicians and Associates, PA
324 W Wendover Ave, Suite 200
PO Box 14520
Greensboro, NC 27415-4520
336-268-3201 (P) 336-275-0812 (F)
In Accordance With NC Statute § 131E‑107
From: Greenville Pathology [mailto:gp...@btitelecom.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:58 PM
To: Sembert, Fran - Eagle
Subject: RE: Appointments with Legislators
Ok brain dead from a day off,. I have never set up appointments before. How do I looking at this attached spreadsheet know whom I am seting up appointments to see?
Beth
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Conor Brockett
All, this is a VERY interesting write-up that ran yesterday afternoon. It offers a fairly good description of the dynamics between the Governor (and his staff) and the legislature right now in the context of the state budget/Medicaid managed care debate. Conor
McCrory Saves Face, Takes Lumps on Medicaid Reform
By Scott Mooneyham
May 27, 2013
RALEIGH -- Two months ago, Gov. Pat McCrory announced that he planned a major overhaul of the state's Medicaid health insurance program for the poor that would involve private companies managing care.
In the weeks afterward, McCrory sent his top health officials, Secretary of Health and Human Service Aldona Wos and Medicaid chief Carol Steckel, on a tour to promote the idea.
Then came a pronouncement, just days before the state Senate unveiled its proposed budget, that McCrory, Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis had "joined forces" on Medicaid reform.
The news release went on to talk about the governor's vision for providing "care for the whole person" and improving administrative efficiency. It touted a coming Senate budget provision to push along the process.
The words omitted from the announcement were as noteworthy as those included. "Private" or "privatize" were nowhere on the page.
As for that Senate budget provision, a careful reading shows that it is no ringing endorsement of McCrory's approach. It tells the governor and his health chiefs to come up with a plan; lays out some requirements for how the plan will be tested and implemented; requires some study on potential cost savings and risks; and then says legislators will have the final say in deciding whether to do any of it.
That's right. Those legislative leaders who have joined forces with McCrory have told him to create "but not implement" a Medicaid reform plan.
In other words, legislators have given Pat the ol' pat on the head and told him, "Now, you run off and be a good boy."
Sure, they allowed him to save a little face. The budget provision, though, makes clear who will be in charge.
No one should be surprised. Most legislators never seemed real enamored with the idea of scrapping the current system in which doctors -- not insurers -- receive the financial incentives to generate savings.
Meanwhile, Senate budget writers have marched off on their own, hearing a different drum beat of reform for a program that most people acknowledge puts tremendous financial pressure on the rest of state government.
Among other things, Senate Republicans would create a stick to go along with Medicaid carrots. They would withhold 4 percent of payments from doctors and other health care providers and only return a portion of that if the docs could show good, cost-efficient treatment of patients.
They would also move a portion of pregnant women who currently qualify for Medicaid onto new health care exchanges, a change that critics condemn because it will mean more out-of-pocket expenses for those women.
Setting aside the Medicaid reform debate, the recent moves provide more evidence that a rookie governor without a lot of experience in state government has yet to find his footing.
He needs to find it soon. Otherwise legislative bulldogs will keep knocking him to the ground.
They will smile, help him up and dust him off.
And then they will do it again, and again, and again.
From: Advocacy...@googlegroups.com [mailto:Advocacy...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sembert, Fran - Eagle
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:29 PM
To: Advocacy...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Appointments with Legislators
It’s time to set-up appointments with our legislators for next Wednesday. On the attached spreadsheet, I have the advocacy members that are attended high-lighted in yellow. Please make sure to set up appointments for your group. The cities in red, don’t have anyone on the committee. I need volunteers to set up appointments for those folks. We can start appointments at 8:30 but we need to have everyone over to Tillis’ office at 9:30.