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Legislative Update:  Federal Legislation

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RAC Moratorium Legislation Continues to Gain Support

HR 4105, the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Moratorium Act, continues to gain support within the House of Representatives, adding 20 cosponsors since AHIMA’s Hill Day, of which 14 are directly attributable to meetings with AHIMA members. The additional new cosponsors have received letters from AHIMA except for Congressman Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii. If you have not yet visited the Advocacy Assistant to send your letter to Congress to support HR 4105, please do so today. This is a critical issue and we need your support! To date, the New York HIMA leads the letter-writing charge with 91 letters sent to Congress, with Florida a close second with 69. So far, a total of 45 of 50 states have sent letters on HR 4105. Make sure your state responds to this important call.


Senate:

S.1814 Health Information Privacy and Security Act of 2007

S.1693 Wired for Health Care Quality Act

S.1456 The Federal Employee Personal Health Records Act

S.1455 The National Health Information Technology and Privacy
          Advancement Act

S.1455 National Health Information Technology and Privacy
          Advancement Act

S.1408 Health Information Technology Act of 2007.

S.628 The Critical Access to Health Information Technology Act.

S.605 Allied Health Reinvestment Act

S.358 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

House:

H.R.2991 Independent Health Record Trust Act

H.R.2406 Rep. Bart Gordon Introduces NIST HIT Bill

H.R.2043 The Medicaid Access Project through Health IT Act (MAP-
             IT)

H.R.1952 National Health Information Infrastructure Incentive Act

H.R.1467 The 10,000 Trained by 2010 Act

H.R.1368 The Personalized Health Information Act

H.R.493 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act