H.R. 6331 Medicare Bill

[bangwa]

What is your position on this Bill? Apparently, Bill was suppose to contain provisions to ensure that the services of Resident Anesthesiologist and SRNA, are paid for.

I know the president vetoed the bill but it was overide by both the house and senate.

How will this bill influence the cost of training CRNAs?

What is AANA's position on this bill?

Thanks for response

[CRNA, DNSc]

What is your position on this Bill? Apparently, Bill was suppose to contain provisions to ensure that the services of Resident Anesthesiologist and SRNA, are paid for.

I know the president vetoed the bill but it was overide by both the house and senate.

How will this bill influence the cost of training CRNAs?

What is AANA's position on this bill?

Thanks for response

The AANA supported this bill because it treated reimbursement for MDs and CRNAs supervising residents or SRNAs in a similar fashion. THE ASA had proposed a bill that would only reimburse MDs (100% of BOTH rooms- Compared to 50% of each room currently)when supervising 2 residents and was silent on reimbursing when supervising 2 SRNAs or on reimbursing CRNAs when supervising 2 students. This would have created a financial disincentive for institutions/MD to participate in the clinical supervision of SRNA. Fortunately the bill proposing to treat both types of supervision providers similarly was passed, vetoed by President Bush but overridden by both House and Senate.