July 30, 2020: MGMA joins coalition urging Congress to lift prohibition on unique patient identifier

July 30, 2020 

Dear Representative:

The Patient ID Now coalition urges you to support the amendment being offered by Representative Bill Foster (IL) and Representative Mike Kelly (PA) to HR 7617, the “Defense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, House and Urban Development Appropriations Act of 2021.” This amendment strikes Section 510 of the Labor-HHS Appropriations bill, which currently prohibits the US Department of Health and Human Services from spending any federal dollars to promulgate or adopt a national patient identifier.
 

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