More than 300 people from across Tennessee gathered at the state capitol to advocate for better healthcare policies.

The Tennessee Medical Association’s Day on the Hill is the association’s biggest annual advocacy event, regularly drawing hundreds of participants.

During last month’s Day on the Hill, doctors spoke to their representatives and senators about bills including:

• Regulation of In-Office Dispensing SB2060/HB2126 is one of TMA’s top legislative priorities. It would eliminate confusing or ambiguous language in a statute outlining requirements for physicians’ offices dispensing medication.
• Workers’ Compensation Silent PPO SB1758/HB1720, another of TMA’s legislative priorities, would add an enforcement mechanism for existing laws regulating workers’ compensation silent PPOs.
• Payer Accountability TMA is working on alternative language for a bill to require more stability in contracted reimbursement rates from health insurance companies.
• Cost-Sharing Parity for Oral Cancer Therapies TMA Members support SB2091/HB2239, which would prohibit an insurance policy that provides benefits for both injected or intravenous cancer medications and oral cancer medications from requiring a higher copayment, deductible or coinsurance amount for either of the treatment options.