Action Alerts

• Update on Medical Records Privacy Final Rule
• Calls Needed on Health Plan Legal Accountability
• Talking Points on the Flawed Privacy Provision in the Financial Services Bill
• Sample Letter to House Education & Workforce Committee on Health Plan Legal Accountability
• Sample Letter to Senate on Health Plan Legal Accountability

Testimony/Correspondence

• Comments on Proposed Rule on Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
• Letter to Honorable John Dingell in support of the Consensus Managed Care Improvement Act (H.R.2723)
• Regarding the Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act
• Regarding the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Amendments of 1999

Legislative Factsheets

• Physician-Only References Will Deny Many Patients Fair Review
• HMO Legal Accountability Must Protect All Injured Persons, Not Just Those With Physical Injuries
• Reaching Compromise on HMO Legal Accountability
• The Coburn-Shadegg Legal Accountability Provision Contains So Many Loopholes That It Will Not Provide HMO Accountability For Many Injured Patients
• Give Injured Patients Legal Recourse By Closing the ERISA Loophole
• ERISA Managed Care Organizations Should Be Held Accountable For Decisions That Harm Patients
• Psychology Training Programs Need GME Funding to Preserve Patient Care
• Enact Legal Accountability in Health Insurance Reform (4-01)
• The Myths and Facts About the McCain-Ganske Bill: The Bipartisan Patient Protection Act (3-01)
• Parity Loopholes Should Be Closed for all Mental Illnesses (2-02)