MOPA was well represented at the 2012 APA State Leadership Conference in Washington, DC.  Our delegation consisted of (L-R), Denise Bike (Student Rep), Ellen McLean (Executive Director), Richard Martielli (President), and Liz Grodsky (Federal Advocacy Coordinator).  We made Hill visits on Tuesday, March 13th.  The 3 issues covered were:

• Replacing the SGR with a system that values cost-efficient psychological services. 
• Adding psychologists to the Medicare “physician” definition
• Making psychologists eligible for the HITECH Act incentives.

We met with staffers from the offices of Sen. McCaskill, Sen. Blunt, Rep. Long, Rep. Clay and Rep. Emerson.