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ALERT-ACT NOW! Support Naturopathic Doctor Licensure - IL House Health Care Licenses Committee

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:00:00 GMT

CALL-TO-ACTION - Urge the Illinois House Healthcare Licenses Committee to support licensure of Naturopathic Doctors in Illinois!. Please ACT TODAY!

Take Action to Support Colorado NDs Today!

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:00:00 GMT

Call or email your Colorado Senator and Representative today!

HB24-1171 has passed the Colorado House Chamber and headed to the Senate. We need your help by contacting your Senate representative to let them know you want them to support Colorado NDs and allow them to fully participate in providing whole healthcare to Coloradans.

This clear and simple bill allows Naturopathic Doctors (NDs) to practice to the top of their training and education - nothing more and nothing less.

Take Action Now! Send letters of Support to MO House Committee Before Tuesday March 5th!

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT

Let's join together to amplify our voices for Naturopathic Doctors in Missouri. Let House committee members know that you support HB2446 which seeks to regulate ND's in our state. Write your own personal letter of support or use our template. Let's show up for ND's in a big way!

Take Action Today for Colorado Naturopathic Doctors

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 05:00:00 GMT

Call or email your Colorado Senator and Representative today!

HB24-1171, a clear and simple bill allowing Naturopathic Doctors (NDs) to practice to the top of their training and education is being read for a 2nd time tomorrow, Friday, March 1st. We need your help by contacting your state legislative representatives to let them know you want them to support HB24-1171, allowing NDs to fully participate in providing whole healthcare to Coloradans.

PA Naturopathic Doctors Need Your Voice NOW

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 04:00:00 GMT

The Pennsylvania Association of Naturopathic Physicians (PANP) and the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) are calling on all advocates to provide comments to remedy inconsistencies in 16A-4593 - the PA Medical Board proposed rules. The proposed rules have language that is not included in the Naturopathic Doctor Registration Act (NDRA), diminishing the primary purpose of the act in ensuring PA citizens who wish to avail themselves of a Naturopathic Doctor (ND), they can be assured that practitioner has attained uniformly accepted education requirements AND passed nationally recognized competency exams.

We call on you to help raise our collective voice to ensure the language and spirit of the NDRA reflect and respect these fundamental requirements by submitting comments today. Time is of the essence - please take action now.

URGE Oregon Ways and Means Committee to Pass HB 4006!

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 04:00:00 GMT

HB 4006 "ND Health Insurance Pay Parity"

The House Health Care Committee hearing on this bill is at 8AM, Friday February 4th. ACT NOW!

Health Insurance Pay Parity will help ensure that NDs are able to stay contracted with all insurance companies and be reimbursed adequately. This increases access to ND care for all patients in Oregon. Due to the limited reimbursement by many insurance companies, NDs are forced to drop their contracting with many, some all.

Using the form below you will politely request that your state senator and your state representative ask the members of the House Health Care Committee at their hearing for this bill to VOTE YES! At the same time, this form sends your polite request directly to the members of the House Health Care Committee themselves.

Enter your address below and click "GO" to start the process of sending email messages to all members of the House Health Care Committee, and to the State Senator and State Representative that represent you where you live and vote.

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Please note that Congress Web adheres to congressional and legislative requirements that you fill in the "prefix" and "phone number" fields, and that available prefix options are determined by these requirements, not OANP. (We tried to turn the honorifics off for this form. Thankfully, we were able to have them not send in the final emails. Choose randomly if your identity is not sufficiently listed.)

ONE MORE TIME, PLEASE! Even if you previously acted! PAY PARITY is still possible, but we need your help again!

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 04:00:00 GMT

Despite the unprecedented gridlock in Salem, HB2555 is still being considered and now it appears the log-jam has broken! We are now targeting the top leaders to urge them for a hearing and a vote in the Ways and Means Committee, Human Services Subcommittee. Please urge leadership to support HB2555 to ensure pay parity for NDs.

Please complete this action alert even if you previously completed our last one.

Thanks so much!

OANP Legislative Committee

NCANP Needs Your Voice - Support HB 557

Tue, 30 May 2023 04:00:00 GMT

Friends of Naturopathic Medicine,

As you may know, the North Carolina Association of Naturopathic Physicians (NCANP) has been working tirelessly to achieve licensure of Naturopathic Doctors in North Carolina.

I am writing to share the exciting news that our ND licensure bill, HB 557, North Carolina Healing Arts Commission, is scheduled for a hearing in the NC House Regulatory Reform Committee on Wednesday! This is the first step toward licensure of NDs in NC and it’s ESSENTIAL that our bill passes this committee hearing. WE NEED YOUR HELP TODAY!

Please take a moment to email the members of the NC House of Representatives Regulatory Reform Committee so they will go into their Committee meeting on Wednesday at 11 am KNOWING that the people of North Carolina want Naturopathic Care for themselves and their loved ones! It’s fast and easy and your voice really will make a HUGE difference!

In Solidarity,

Dr. Amy Hawkins, ND
President, North Carolina Association of Naturopathic Physicians

ND PAY PARITY - tell the Ways & Means Co-Chairs and other Legislative Leadership to advance HB2555!

Fri, 19 May 2023 04:00:00 GMT

HB2555 needs to be scheduled for a hearing and a vote in the Ways and Means Committee, Human Services Subcommittee. Please request that the chairs of this committee, along with leadership, support HB2555 to ensure pay parity for NDs.

ACT NOW! Oregon Ways and Means Committee needs to Pass HB 4006, ND Pay Parity!

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 05:00:00 GMT

HB 4006 "ND Health Insurance Pay Parity" has passed the House Health Care Committee and is waiting to be scheduled at Ways and Means, the state's budget committee.

This is the "short" legisltive session. It will all be over on March 4th. We need your help ASAP to get this bill to move.

Using the form below you will politely request every member of the Ways and Means committee and your state senator and your state representative to also ask the members of the Ways and Means Committee to move this bill to sub committee and pass it!

Enter your address below and click "GO" to start the process of sending email messages to all members of the Joint Committee on Ways and Means, and to the State Senator and State Representative that represent you where you live and vote.

URGE Your Ways and Means Legislator to Move ND PAY PARITY to Sub-committee!

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 05:00:00 GMT

HB 4006 "ND Health Insurance Pay Parity"

This bill has been voted YES! at the House Health Care Committee and is now waiting on the Co-Chairs of the Joint Committee on Ways and Means to send the bill to sub-committee for a hearing.

Our records indicate you work or live in district with either Senator Elizabeth Steiner-Hayward or Representative Tawna Sanchez, co-chairs of this very important committee.

This Fair Pay bill is desperately needed in Oregon. Health insurance has been paying NDs as little as 50% of what they pay every other healthcare provider for each doctor visit. The reason this bill now goes to Oregon's budget committee is because the state's own self-funded health plans, PEBB and OEBB have also been paying NDs unfairly. Paying NDs fairly will increase the cost of those plans by only a small amount.

As a constituent and supporter of Naturopathic Medicine and the doctors that practice it: your nudge to these important legislators who count on your vote for re-election is powerful.

Please Complete the Action Alert Below

ACTION NEEDED AGAIN! Support Naturopathic Licensure - IL House Committee

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 05:00:00 GMT

Urge the House Health Care Licenses Committee to support HB 4294 to License Naturopathic Doctors in Illinois.

Support Licensure of Naturopathic Physicians in Illinois

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 05:00:00 GMT

CALL-TO-ACTION - Urge the Illinois Senate Licensed Activities Committee to support licensure of Naturopathic Physicians in Illinois!

Tell Your Senator to Vote YES to License NDs

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 05:00:00 GMT

Senate Bill 532 is headed to the Senate floor for a vote. Tell your Senator to vote YES to license NDs!

Tell Your Representative to Vote YES to License NDs

Sun, 16 Jan 2022 05:00:00 GMT

Assembly Bill 529 is headed to the Assembly floor for a vote. Tell your Representative to vote YES to license NDs!

MDs who Support Licensure for NDs: Share your story with legislators!

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 04:00:00 GMT

The Wisconsin Naturopathic Doctors Association needs your support! We are collecting written testimony from MDs and DOs who are in support of licensure for NDs. We plan to share your written testimony at our Senate hearing on Wednesday, September 29 at noon.

Please take a few minutes to show your support by sharing with the members of the Senate Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry what your experience has been with qualified, medically-trained NDs and why you support licensure for NDs. Here are some guidelines/questions to ponder:

Share about your practice- where do you practice and in what capacity?
In what instances have you worked with qualified NDs?
How do you see ND medical care fit into the spectrum of patient care?
How do qualified NDs demonstrate they are competent providers?
How does licensure improve health care for Wisconsinites?
How does licensure improve public safety for Wisconsinites?
Would you like to have more qualified NDs to refer to, collaborate with?
Would you like Wisconsinites to have increased access to qualified ND care?

Anything else you'd like to share, please do. We are very grateful for your support and willingness to demonstrate it to the legislature.

Share your story: Why do you think NDs should be licensed?

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 04:00:00 GMT

Want to be a part of changing the health care system? Want to see NDs licensed and be able to provide the BEST care possible for you? Your legislators NEED to hear from you! Your voice is powerful. Here are some guidelines for sharing your story:

What to say??? Your testimony must have a beginning, middle and an end. It is not necessary to explain the benefits of naturopathic medicine itself. We know it works. Rather, teach the legislators why NDs need to be licensed. What the legislators want to know is what your experience has been but also WHY NDs need to be licensed. How does licensure impact the people of Wisconsin?
Here are some questions to ponder when you are writing:
- Share your story- your name, where you live, why you sought Naturopathic Medical care from the ND you chose, and what your experience was with your ND
- Speak to the level of education of your ND, that your ND has a high level of medical training- perhaps this benefited you?
- Speak to the primary care training of your ND— perhaps you want your ND to be your primary care provider?
- Speak to the collaborative care your ND provides— perhaps your ND works with your MD or other specialists for your best care?
- Speak to your need to have your ND have full scope of their training with prescriptive rights, minor surgery, order labs, order imaging, be able to diagnose and treat disease?
- Speak to the safety of your ND— perhaps your story includes because your ND is medically trained, your ND is safe and gives you sound medical advice? Did you ever have an experience with a person who called themselves an ND but was NOT medically trained that gave you unsound or dangerous advice? (Licensing NDs distinguishes between those who call themselves NDs but do not have medical training and those that do. Our bill will allow only medically-trained NDs to have the title ND.)
- Speak to the relative cost savings of ND care. Has your ND saved you money by teaching you prevention and saved you from having to have expensive procedures or medications?
What NOT to say???
- Don't talk about insurance. Our licensure bill has NOTHING to do with insurance. Licensing the profession is the first of many steps that must take place to elevate the profession and insert ND care into the health care system.

Urge your legislators to co-sponsor ND licensing bill

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:00:00 GMT

Wisconsin's Naturopathic Doctors need your help! Our bill to license NDs is circulating for co-sponsorship until Wednesday, July 21. Contact your legislators today and urge them to sign on in support of LRB-2859/1 and LRB-3998.

Support Licensure for Naturopathic Doctors in Wisconsin

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 04:00:00 GMT

URGENT: Bill in Subcommittee TOMORROW MORNING (1/15) !

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 05:00:00 GMT

UPDATE – one of our ND licensure bills, SB 1218, is being heard EARLY TOMORROW MORNING in subcommittee!

As previously shared, opponents continue to push a misinformed narrative about the qualifications and capabilities of medically trained NDs. To counter this, we need all supporters and advocates to contact members of the Senate Education and Health Committees ASAP – urging them to vote YES on SB 1218 (and its companion, HB 2044)!

The KEY MESSAGES that legislators should hear from advocates are:

Naturopathic Doctors are medically trained and educated; they have the skills and qualifications necessary to have a practice license. Almost half the nation already regulates the profession!
HB 2044/SB 1218 create a very limited scope of practice; this legislation is focused on the very basics of health care.
This is about public safety and expanding access to health care; Virginia should license NDs because it is the responsible and practical step to ensuring informed access to better naturopathic medical care.
Reasons why YOU as a Virginia citizen and/or professional personally support licensing Naturopathic Doctors!

Please take a few moments NOW to complete & send an advocate letter to the committee members.

THANK YOU for your continued support!

The VAANP

Naturopathic medicine is a solution for Montana healthcare.

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 05:00:00 GMT

Let your lawmakers know!

Naturopathic Doctors across Montana provide essential primary care and teamwork.

Three decades of naturopathic medicine has had a tremendous impact in Montana. Physicians across the state have brought the wisdom of nature together with the rigors of modern medicine- one patient at a time.

It's a unique and powerful way to care for our community.

Your support advances naturopathic medicine in Montana. Thank You!

*Enter your address below to highlight your legislators and send them a message today:

License Naturopathic Doctors in Texas

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:00:00 GMT

The Texas Association of Naturopathic Doctors is pushing for licensure during the Texas 2023 Legislative Session. Please sign the petition to let your senators and representatives know that you support licensing of naturopathic doctors in Texas.

Email Your New York Legislators

Mon, 23 May 2016 04:00:00 GMT

Email a letter to both your New York Senator and Assembly person in support of licensing Naturopathic Physicians.