WOEMA's Legislative Priorities and Principles

    WOEMA advocates on behalf of its 600 members for the following:

    1.    All American wage earners should have general, or creditable, health care coverage

    2.    A Mechanism for Reimbursing Physicians for Workplace Preventive Services

    3.    A Mechanism for Financial Support of Occupational Medicine Residency Programs

    4.    Predictable and Fair Fee Schedules for Occupational Medicine Services, including medical services under Workers’ Compensation

    5.    Financial Incentives to Physicians for Use of an Electronic Health Record

    6.    Use of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Occupational Medicine Practice

    7.    Patient incentives, and other value-based health care benefits rewarding healthy behaviors or lifestyle changes