Chairman John T. Gill, MD [email protected] 317 Massachusetts Ave, N.E. Washington, DC 20002 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS 2015 PAC Annual Report ACCESS. INFLUENCE. VICTORIES. CONTENTS Letter from the Chair ..............................................................................................2 PAC Executive Committee ....................................................................................3 Financial Highlights ................................................................................................4 Criteria for Giving ....................................................................................................6 Political Disbursements ........................................................................................7 Expanding the PAC’s Political Reach ...............................................................11 PAC Events ............................................................................................................12 Orthopaedic PAC Capitol Club .........................................................................14 Orthopaedic PAC Donors ...................................................................................16 A Look Ahead: Legislative Accomplishments/Priorities .............................23 Residents in Action ..............................................................................................25 LETTER FROM YOUR ORTHOPAEDIC PAC CHAIR DEAR COLLEAGUE, I’m pleased to report that as we close the books for 2015, we enjoyed a great fundraising year, and are on track to finish out the election cycle as our best cycle yet! Because of your generous support, we raised over $1.7 Million from over 3,400 contributors. Whether you’re a solo practitioner, part of a group practice, or a clinician in academics, you know well the enormous power legislators can have on physicians and how we practice. It’s our job as your Orthopaedic PAC to protect all of our orthopaedists, your practice is our priority. 2016 is a critical Presidential election year. We will elect the entire US House of Representatives, one-third of the US Senate, and of course, a new President. The stakes have never been higher. We will work tirelessly to make sure our friends are re-elected, and defeat our adversaries when we must. We are a transparent, membership-driven PAC. We are working for you. If your Member of Congress (MoC) is great and needs help, tell us. If your MoC is terrible and needs to go, tell us. If you don’t know your MoC but want to build a relationship, tell us! As always, we’ll use every dollar you contribute, every single one, to protect our specialty, protect in-office ancillary services, and fight for medical liability reform and delays for both Meaningful Use and Comprehensive care for Joint Replacement (CJR). Special thanks to members of the Orthopaedic Executive Committee, named in this report, who work exceptionally hard at raising money and guiding our electoral strategy. We have broad representation and are proud to be the second largest medical community PAC, and in the top ten of all association PACs. We are steadily climbing back to the top of the ranks, where we belong. I’m proud of the support of our membership, and know we can do even better. Every one of us, and our patients, benefit from our efforts. We all need to be involved and to contribute to our PAC. To those who have supported in 2015, I thank you. I welcome ALL of your support and participation in 2016. Let’s make our voice heard this election and protect our profession. Sincerely, $1,134,000 Total PAC Funds Disbursed to Pro-Physician Members John T. Gill, MD of Congress Chairman, Orthopaedic PAC Capitol Club Member 2 AAOS ORTHOPAEDIC PAC | Access. Influence. Victories. ORTHOPAEDIC PAC EXECUTIVE HELP US COMMITTEE 2015–2016 REACH OUR 2016 GOAL The Orthopaedic PAC is fortunate to have dedicated leaders throughout the AAOS who govern the direction of the PAC. We thank them for their ongoing support and leadership. John T. Gill, MD Ronald Emilio Delanois, MD Renew Your Chairman Secretary Dallas, TX Baltimore, MD PAC Membership on William J. Robb III, MD David J. Mansfield, MD Your Cell Phone Today Treasurer Chair, Board of Councilors Glenview, IL El Paso, TX TEXT AAOS TO 41444 Thomas C. Barber, MD David A. Halsey, MD Chair, Council on Advocacy Chair, Board of Specialty Societies It’s that easy! Oakland, CA South Burlington, VT Lawrence S. Halperin, MD William Maloney, MD Or renew online Chair-Elect, Board of Councilors AAOS 2nd Vice President Altamonte Springs, FL Redwood City, CA aaos.org/pac (log-in required) Brian G. Smith, MD Amir Alex Jahangir, MD Chair-Elect, Board of Specialty Leadership Fellow Societies Nashville, TN Avon, CT Karen Hackett, FACHE, CAE James J. York, MD Chief Executive Officer, AAOS Chair, State Legislative & Regulatory Ex-Officio Member Issues Committee Rosemont, IL Glen Burnie, MD Stacie Monroe Chad Krueger, MD Staff Liaison Resident Fellow Washington, DC San Antonio, TX Douglas Lundy* Treasurer-Elect Atlanta, GA *Assumes Treasurer in March 2016 at AAOS Annual Meeting 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 3 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS The Orthopaedic PAC PAC RECEIPTS: 2007–2015 While receipts are annual, elections are reported on a two year cycle. Only 2015 receipts are is halfway through recorded below. the 2015–2016 cycle, Individuals can contribute up to $5,000 to a PAC per calendar year. Corporate contributions closing out for 2015 with (soft receipts) include checks and credit cards processed on a physician’s business account including LLC, PC, or Inc. Personal contributions (hard receipts) are checks and credit cards $1,733,117. This figure from a physician’s personal account. All contributions to the Orthopaedic PAC—whether includes $1,340,829 in written on a personal or business (corporate) check—are welcome and important. However, corporate contributions can only be used for PAC-related operational expenses. Only those hard (personal) receipts contributions written on a personal check can be used to support political candidates—and and $392,288 in soft it is these contributions that help make the Orthopaedic PAC powerful. (corporate) receipts. The PAC received ORTHOPAEDIC PAC TOTAL RECEIPTS $3,000,000 contributions from 3,570 HARD $ individual donors. The SOFT $ $2,500,000 Orthopaedic PAC in its second year of the Capitol $2,000,000 Club, which recognizes $1,500,000 AAOS fellows contributing $1,000 or more annually $1,000,000 to the PAC, enjoyed nearly 650 members. $500,000 he PAC has dispersed over $0 $1,134,000 to members of T 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2015 Congress and candidates for office supportive of orthopaedic issues. Members of the Office of Government Affairs attended over Election Cycle 2005–06 2007–08 2009–10 2011–12 2013–14 2015-16 445 congressional fundraisers in Hard Receipts $1,915,730 $2,277,051 $2,951,105 $2,738,240 $2,508,864 $1,340,829 Washington, DC on behalf of the PAC since January 1, 2015 while Soft Receipts $759,357 $1,016,087 $880,473 $951,049 $1,018,804 $392,288 AAOS fellows hosted or attended Total $2,675,087 $3,293,138 $3,831,578 $3,689,289 $3,527,668 $1,733,117 37 local events. 4 AAOS ORTHOPAEDIC PAC | Access. Influence. Victories. PAC ELECTION CYCLE DISBURSEMENTS: 2007–2015 The below charts represent total Orthopaedic PAC disbursements to federal candidate committees ranging from the 2005–2006 election cycle through December 31, 2015 and the 2016 cycle numbers below are only representative of what was disbursed in the first year of the two year cycle. ORTHOPAEDIC PAC POLITICAL DISBURSEMENTS $3,000,000 230 $2,500,000 Number of residents that supported our $2,000,000 PAC, a 176% increase from 2014 $1,500,000 $1,000,000 $500,000 $0 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 455 Number of PAC events attended in Election Cycle 2005–06 2007–08 2009–10 2011–12 2013–14 2015–16 Washington, DC Receipts $1,915,730 $2,277,051 $2,951,105 $2,738,240 $2,508,864 $1,340,829 Disbursements $1,778,162 $1,703,855 $2,025,500 $2,552,000 $2,879,305 $1,134,000 80% PAC DISBURSEMENTS DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS BY POLITICAL PARTY 70% The Orthopaedic PAC supports members of Congress and 60% candidates for federal office who 50% understand the issues orthopaedic surgeons face on a daily basis, 40% and who will be sensitive to these concerns in office. The PAC is a 30% nonpartisan entity that contributes 20% to Democrats, Republicans and party committees who share and 10% support the views of the AAOS. 0 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 5 PAC CRITERIA FOR GIVING The Orthopaedic PAC carefully considers many factors before andidates that fall outside of the C established criteria are carefully contributing to federal candidates and legislators. PAC decisions reviewed by the PAC Executive Committee are based only on advocacy issues as directed by the AAOS ensuring PAC money is put where it will best represent the profession. As a PAC Council on Advocacy committee which includes specialty society member, we value your input on these representation. The PAC Executive Committee is guided by a decisions. The insights and viewpoints of our contributors are always welcome and specific document edited each election cycle outlining criteria play a vital role in the decision to support for making political contributions. Among these criteria are a candidate or officeholder. committee assignments, leadership positions, accessibility in Washington and in the state/district and most importantly, positions on orthopaedic issues. ORTHOPAEDIC PAC CRITERIA FOR MAKING POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TIER