Welcome to the ACC’s 2nd Annual Virtual Legislative Conference

Monday, Sept. 18:

All Day: Learn more about the key issues before Congress – Medicare Physician Payment, In-Office Medical Imaging and Health Information Technology – by visiting the ACC’s Issue Resource centers at: http://www.acc.org/advocacy/advoc_issues/advoc_issues.htm. You can also learn more about what’s going on at the Legislative Conference by clicking here for the agenda.

1:30 p.m.: Watch the live web cast of the Medicare Payment Changes: What Lies Ahead for Cardiovascular Care session, featuring ACC Director of Regulatory Affairs Rebecca Kelly. Pfizer is sponsoring the web cast, which will also be stored for future viewing. To view the webcast, you will need to download the latest edition of Windows media player, by clicking here.
The webcast can be watched at: http://netcaster1.net/acc/win.

Tuesday, Sept. 19

All Day: Join the voices of your colleagues on Capitol Hill by contacting your members of Congress using the ACC’s CardioAdvocacy Network (www.acc.org/can). Simply log on using your general ACC logon information to learn more about the issues and to email or fax your lawmakers. A sample letter to Congress is provided for you to personalize.

Participation in the Virtual Legislative Conference only takes a few minutes, but will have a huge impact. Working together we can educate Congress about the critical issues facing our patients and practices both now and into the future.