• Summary of Recently Enacted Medicare Legislation
  
  
• 2007 ACNM Annual Report
  
  
• New Missouri Law Grants CNMs Controlled Substances Prescriptive Authority
  
  

• Learn all about midwifery care in the United States – a comprehensive resource for midwifery facts and statistics

• Visit our consumer-oriented websites myMidwife.org and GotMom.org

• ACNM Presents Free CEU Program for Nurses
  A new clinical resource for intrapartum nurses on performing a sterile speculum examination.

• The National Business Group on Health
  NBGH’s Investing in Maternal and Child Health names CNMs first on the list of providers women should consider and recommends health plans develop CNM-friendly benefit design strategies that reduce the risks and costs of unnecessary medical interventions at birth.

• Ruth Lubic on YouTube
  Macarthur award winner Ruth Lubic, CNM, Founder of the DC Family Health and Birth Center talks about the birth center movement.

• Cara Muhlhahn, CNM, talks about her role in the new Ricki Lake documentary, “The Business of Being Born”

Choose a midwife” is a primary message of the film.

• Speak Out for Midwifery!
  Support efforts to improve Medicare access to midwifery services.

• Highlights from the Annual Meeting
  • ACNM 2007-2008 Highlights
  • ACNM On Location Issue I
  • ACNM On Location Women’s Health Expo Issue
  • ACNM On Location Issue III
  • Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein Thank Midwives
  • 2008 Student Report
  • Meeting Attendees: Claim your CEUs
    
    
• The Nominating Committee welcomes nominations for the 2009 ACNM elections
  

• ACNM Celebrates Passage of Revised Bylaws
  
  
• Credentialing and Medical Staff Privileging Resources (members only)
  

• BlueCross BlueShield Service Coverage Denials:Midwives are improperly being denied reimbursement. ACNM would like to resolve this issue. Please contact us with your experiences. Learn more.

• ACNM Announces Exciting Regional Workshops on Billing and Coding
  

• ACNM launches national initiative to enhance the stature of midwifery in the U.S., supported by the A.C.N.M. Foundation. Donate now.
  

• ACNM Members Meet with Sen. Baucus on Medicare Equity Legislation
  

• ACNM has updated its Issue Brief on midwifery credentials, last updated in 1999. 
  

• Read the Latest on the Medicare Bill
  

• Read the July edition of The Advocate (ACNM members only.)

News Releases

• New Articles on Infertility and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Published in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health (July 11, 2008)

• Anne Hyre, CNM Joins ACNM as the Director of the Global Outreach Department (June 18, 2008)