ISMA’s Vice President of Government Affairs Savannah Neary sat on a panel about downcoding, prior authorization and other payer reforms at the AMA State Advocacy Roundtable this week in California. She discussed Indiana bills HEA 1271 (Payment of Health Claims-Downcoding) and SEA 189 (Nonparticipating providers), which were both the first of their kind in the nation, with other state medical associations. Pictured from left to right are Neary, Erin O’Brien, Senior Vice President of State Legislative Affairs for Illinois State Medical Association, Monica Hueckel, Vice President of Advocacy for Ohio State Medical Association, and Emily Carrol, Senior Attorney Director of the Advocacy Resource Center for AMA. 




Doug Boyle, Director of Policy and Government Affairs; Savannah Neary, Vice President
of Government Affairs, and Clif Knight, MD, Executive Vice President, traveled this week to California
to the AMA State Advocacy Roundtable.