Advocacy

ACC’s North Dakota-Great Plains Chapter Governor Mevan N. Wijetunga, MD, FACC, and Aaron Smith, MD, FACC, joined the American Heart Association’s lobby day in Bismarck, ND to advocate for cardiac emergency response plans in schools, heart-healthy school meals, and raising the commercial tobacco tax. They also met with key state legislators to establish meaningful prior authorization reform by advancing S.B. 2280. Smith submitted written testimony in favor of the bill at the most recent Senate Industry and Business Committee hearing.