As the ASA staff and your elected representatives work on the 2017 budget, I thought it would be good to share with you where your money is going. The goals of the budget are to align with ASA’s Strategic Goals that will fulfill the ASA mission, “Advancing the Practice, and Securing the Future.”
This is the number-one goal because this is who we are – without members, ASA wouldn’t exist. Without engaged members, ASA wouldn’t thrive. The entire ASA staff and its volunteer physician members continue to work to guarantee the quality of the member experience, ensuring that the offerings of membership create value. We have invested in a new core platform and continue to invest in information technology to improve the member experience.
Current advocacy issues include: 1) ensuring that our veterans have access to physician anesthesiologists, 2) ensuring that anesthesiologists are not harmed by inadequate insurance networks that...