Get Involved

Be a part of our advocacy movement in a hands-on way! We have a growing team of organizations and individuals contributing to our efforts and we’d love to have you on board.

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Tell Us Your Story

Your experiences matter and can help guide our advocacy. Do you have examples of the impact prior authorization or automatic downcoding has on your practice? Has your ability to care for patients been affected by administrative burden from insurers? Elected officials better understand the complexities of our healthcare system through the lense of real-world impact.
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Be a Subject Matter Expert

Do you see something in our priority issues that speaks to your passion or expertise? If you can help us on an issue, we want to hear from you! We’ll put you on our shortlist of coalition members whom we reach out to when we need advocacy support, require feedback, or have questions. Your knowledge on our advocacy issues is valuable!
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Volunteer to Testify at the Statehouse

Be a voice for one of our advocacy issues that is personal to you or your specialty. OSMA will be at your side to guide you through the process and help with crafting your testimony. We need physician spokespeople to help deliver the message, and we'll make it easy on you! Email to Get Started >

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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.

Commit to Participate >
Medical students, please note: Two medical student representatives are selected by the OSMA Medical Student Section to serve on each subcommittee for a term of one year. These selections are made at the OSMA MSS Annual Meeting, typically held in February. Any medical students filling out this interest form to participate will have their name and info provided to MSS leadership before the next yearly meeting to be considered. 

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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