Get Involved

We are often asked by our members how they can individually become more involved in OSMA. The opportunities below outline where we need members to volunteer:

Stay Informed with Advocacy Action Alerts:

Simply text "OSMA" with your first & last name to 51555 and you will be subscribed to our text alerts for how you can easily take action to help with our legislation efforts.

Volunteer to Testify at the Statehouse:

Can you be a voice for one of our priority issues that is personal to you or your specialty? We need physician spokespeople to help deliver the message, and we will be at your side to guide you and help to craft your testimony. Legislators always need to hear from Ohio physicians firsthand. Join us at the Statehouse for a committee hearing to speak out for the practice of medicine in an extremely powerful way.
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Help Prioritize Patients & Healthcare Providers Over Insurers:

If you have meaningful data or examples to illustrate the burdens insurers are placing upon you, your practice, and your patients, we need to hear from you. Your stories will support our advocacy for insurance reform initiatives. The insurance reform legislation we are supporting will bring much-needed transparency to the insurmountable power insurers have gained in the healthcare system.
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Join an Advocacy Leader Committee:

Our advocacy leaders meet roughly three times a year (virtually) to provide expertise on legislative bills and regulatory rules. There will also be times between meetings where staff will send committee members language for immediate feedback or need support providing responses to policy makers.

• Primary Care & Mental Health Advocacy
  • This committee includes primarily family practice, pediatric, OBGYN, psychiatric, and addiction medicine members—focused on primary care, public health and topics focused on improving Ohio’s health outcomes, as well as a variety of policies related to mental health and addiction.
    
    
• Specialty Care
  • This committee includes primarily surgical and other non-primary care specialties (such as plastic surgery, orthopedics, general surgery, gastroenterology, anesthesia, ophthalmology, dermatology, emergency medicine, radiology, rheumatology, etc.) covering the topics facing these specialties.

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Have Questions?

Do you need assistance with a legislative issue?
Do you have questions about a medical board issue or other regulatory-related issue?

We welcome your questions about continuing education, reimbursement assistance, insurance/claims, preferred service partners, other business practice questions, or questions related to OSMA member benefits.

OSMA is here for you, and working to reduce your administrative burdens and protect patient care!

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