ACT NOW: Ask the DC City Council for Physician-led Anesthesia Care and to remove scope changes for CRNAs
B25-545 would update the DC law regulating healthcare licensing in the District. The bill includes numerous changes to the District's scope of practice laws for CRNAs to give them independent practice without any physician collaboration. The DCSA, MSDC, AMA, and the healthcare community are concerned that this change in scope would endanger patients and raise the cost of healthcare in DC. You can see what many of these changes are at the MSDC website housed at the MSDC website.
The Committee on Health is holding a "mark-up" (or vote of changes to the bill) in the coming weeks and if the scope language is not removed, it will be hard to prevent it from passing.
DCSA urges all members to write letters to their DC council members about Bill 25-545 and contact dcsasecretary@gmail.com with any questions on how to send the letters and other next steps.
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ABOUT DCSA
The DC Society of Anesthesiologists (DCSA) represents more than 300 physicians and AA’s practicing in the District of Columbia.
The principal goal of the DCSA is to promote the practice of anesthesiology in the District of Columbia.
Our mission is to communicate the scope and value of the anesthesiologist to the public, to monitor and promote public policy to enhance patient care, and to serve as an advocate for anesthesiologists and their patients.