OPPOSE
Insurance Legisla Ɵ on
Tort Reform and Auto Insurance
Oppose SB 231 by Senator Reese Senate Bill 231 includes a provision to cap the amount a pa Ɵ ent can recover for medical expenses in personal injury cases at 300% of the Medicare rate. This is government mandated rate se ƫ ng and a bad precedent. Capping recoveries is an unnecessary and arbitrary interference with fair, market-based compensa Ɵ on for medical services and would likely result in injured par Ɵ es having less access to care and provider choice. Addi Ɵ onally, pa Ɵ ents will s Ɵ ll be responsible for a bill they may be unable to pay. Physicians con Ɵ nue to be unfairly vili fi ed in the tort reform ba Ʃ le. It has not been demonstrated that medical expenses are driving an increase in property and casualty insurance premiums. Physicians request to be removed from the legisla Ɵ on.
Workers Compensa Ɵ on Insurance
Oppose HB117 by Representa Ɵ ve Echols House Bill 117 authorizes the Assistant Secretary of the O ffi ce of Workers Compensa Ɵ on to promulgate a worker’s compensa Ɵ on reimbursement schedule which shall be reasonable and have similar characteris Ɵ cs of surrounding states. The subjec Ɵ ve determina Ɵ on of “reasonableness” will lead to a vast discrepancy among various districts and result in physicians having to defend their rates charged for services. We are requested this be converted to a study resolu Ɵ on that includes physician groups in the conversa Ɵ on.
Working Together to Keep Physicians in Patient Care Louisiana State Medical Society * Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians * LA Chapter - American Academy of Pediatrics * LA Chapter - American College of Cardiology LA Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons * Louisiana Orthopedic Association * Louisiana Osteopathic Medical Association * Louisiana Psychiatric Medical Association Louisiana Society of Anesthesiologists * Louisiana Society of Interventional Pain Physicians * Medicine Louisiana * Radiological Society of Louisiana Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) - Monroe, LA * LA Chapter - American College of Emergency Physicians
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