Membership FAQs

What makes the NPA different?

The NPA was founded to bring a new voice to organized medicine.  Nimble, transparent, and participatory, our organization defies the traditional in critical ways:

1) The NPA does not accept pharmaceutical company money.

2) The NPA's bylaws empower a Council of Consumers to directly influence NPA policies related to the consumers of health care services.

3) The NPA is a multi-specialty, multi-issue organization that will put health before business, patients before politics, and  profession above privilege.

Why join the NPA now?

Because you are needed.  Because your insight, experience, and desire to practice good medicine in a healthy, honest environment warrant strong backing from thousands of your professional colleagues.  There is enormous momentum for change.  All over the country, doctors are making the investment to join the National Physicians Alliance.  This organization will be judged by our actions -which will depend on our strength-which depends on membership.  By joining the NPA now, you will be helping to launch, shape, and energize a new organization that will represent both you and your patients.  Remember: the antidote to despair is action. Join today.   

How will I make my voice heard?

The NPA values your input.  If you have an idea for a local project or pilot program that shares the NPA's vision, we want to enable your success.  If you are already working on projects that resonate with the NPA's mission, we want to help.  If you're simply frustrated, we want to connect you with docs who share your feelings and are ready to do something about them. 

There are many ways for members to become involved in the NPA and your active participation is deeply encouraged.  By joining one or more of the Policy Priority Committees, you will become a member of the associated listserve(s) and receive regular e-mails relevant to your primary interests.  NPA members also have free access to dedicated issue-based forum pages, providing the opportunity to communicate with like minded physicians all over the world and to vote on policy development.  Many physicians spend time talking with colleagues about the challenges before us.  The NPA will enable the medical community to develop these conversations with greater agility, wider input, and the kind of follow-through that is only possible with coordinated leadership.