Medicare physician payment campaign checklist

Please use the following checklist as suggestions of tactics that can be employed by state medical and medical specialty societies.  If assistance is needed, AMA staff will be available to help coordinate. 

• Meet with your U.S. Senators in state and ask them to co-sponsor S.2785, The Save Medicare Act of 2008 (PDF, 32KB)
  
  
• Attend your senator’s town hall meeting
  
  
• Invite your congressional delegation to a town hall meeting
  sponsored by a state or county medical society
  
  
• Meet with editorial boards
  
  
• Send a letter to your senators
  
  
• Send a letter/grassroots alert to your members
  Sample Alert
  
  
• Publish editorial/column in your newsletter
  
  
• Submit letter to the editor
  Sample (PDF, 10.1KB)
  
  
• Distribute talking points to grassroots
  Sample (PDF, 31.6KB)
  
  
• Conduct local press conference with physician leaders and patients