We all know there is power in numbers. With the variety of health care issues facing Oregon, it is a crucial time for physicians to make their voices heard. The Oregon Medical Association (OMA) invites you to join your colleagues in organized medicine and become a member.

Your membership, input and involvement is important. With your support, OMA can focus on meeting your needs, such as:

• Speaking for you in Salem – Our advocacy efforts this year were fundamental in killing bills that would encroach on physicians’ scope of practice or impose potentially unreasonable reporting requirements, and in passing legislation on public health issues like school nutrition and insurance benefits for prosthetics.
• Advocating for you with carriers – We work with public and private carriers at the state, regional and federal level to help you navigate the changing forces at work in reimbursement, and help you get the most for your work.
• Saving you money – We offer a variety of products and services that can save you money and make your work easier. For instance, as an OMA member you will qualify for malpractice insurance through CNA HealthPro. This year, CNA gave back nearly $350,000 to policy holders. We’ve also partnered with athenahealth, Inc., a web-based billing and practice management solution, as part of our continuing effort to help you find tools that will make your work easier.

When you become a member of the OMA, you receive something else: a sense of belonging to an organization that represents all of the medical profession with proven credibility and a history of integrity. More members mean more voices – and more voices mean a stronger, more powerful role in all we do to represent physicians and organized medicine.