Full Practice Bill: Urgent Request from TNP, Delegation Contracts/Fees for High-Level Senate Meeting
Posted 2 days ago by Amy Owens Horelica
Practice Owners,
This session, TNP has been working on a number of full practice authority bills in the House and the Senate. And over the past couple of months, our full practice legislation has captured unprecedented attention and support in the Texas legislature.
As a culmination of that interest, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, who has significant power and influence over the agenda of the Senate and the entire legislature, has called a meeting this Tuesday with TMA and TNP to discuss the full practice bill. The is the most significant meeting in the bill’s recent history. And we are undoubtedly at a turning point in deciding the bill’s future.
One of the top issues to be discussed during the meeting is the subject of payments and fees for delegation contracts. The Texas Medical Association (TMA) insists they have no knowledge or data of exorbitant fees being paid and are communicating this relentlessly to the Lt. Governor. We have sent the Lt. Governor’s office national survey data and summaries of TNP member survey data on delegation fees, but his office has communicated that they need concrete examples of these contracts.
What We Need From You
We are asking Texas NP practice owners if they’d be willing to share redacted delegation contracts with details of their delegation fees (we need actual word doc contracts, and not just a summary of these fees). For professional and legal reasons, we know these contracts cannot be shared as is. But if all names, addresses, and identifying information is removed from the contracts, we can present a sample of these contracts and fees during the meeting with the Lt. Governor.
We know this is an extraordinary request, but we are being asked to substantiate data that has been at the core of our argument for full practice. We want to do all we can to provide this data ahead of this timely and strategic meeting with the Lt. Governor.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email (erin@texasnp.org) or call (512-781-0053) Erin, TNP’s Director of Government Affairs.