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Medicare Participation Deadline Extended and other stories from latest Action http://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=8 275
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Congressional action to stop the 21.2-percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians on Jan. 1 prompted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to extend the 2010 participation enrollment deadline until March 17.

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Texas reporters – A reminder: Send TMA your Anson Jones Award entries! Check out http://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=1 19
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Winning entries receive a plaque and $1,000; Citation of Merit winners receive a certificate and $250. Show TMA and the world your best health care/medical reporting from 2009!

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Getting Help Going It Alone -- Podcast TMA
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The association held 18 House Calls, listening sessions with patients, across Texas earlier this year. TMA physicians heard from thousands of their patients on what they do and don’t want in health system reform. More than 3,000 patients and their doctors shared their opinions, hopes, and fears. TMA collected and analy...zed all comments recorded on video, written on note cards, and submitted in surveys.

Texas Medical Association Be sure to watch the video with highlights from our 18 House Calls. Fix what's broken, keep what's good.
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“No matter which side of the debate you’re on, there’s one thing all Texas patients agree on ― big health insurance companies need some big changes. And, health plans need to stop ...

Texas Medical Association Senate vote gives physicians two-month reprieve on cuts. Still need a permanent fix for the SGR!
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Cuts in Medicare payments to physicians in 2010 were delayed until March when the U.S. Senate approved a $636 billion military appropriations bill today. The bill includes a provision delaying Centers ...

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Four days before the Senate jettisoned the idea of expanding Medicare to younger Americans, a dozen Senate Democrats, including some of the chamber's most liberal members, dispatched a stern letter warning that the proposal would make it harder for elderly patients in parts of the country to find...

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If Congress Doesn't Act...
How will the planned cuts in Medicare payments to physicians affect your practice if Congress doesn't act before Jan. 1? The estimated average effect by physician specialty is posted on the TMA Web... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m...y website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...
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Texas Medical Association while Americans rate most professions more poorly than in their prior measurements, certain professions such as nurses, pharmacists, doctors, police officers, and engineers have maintained a high level of confidence from the American public.
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Americans give the lowest honesty and ethics ratings to clergy (50%) and bankers (19%) in Gallup’s more than 30 years of measuring honesty and ethics among professions. Most professions experienced some decline in their ratings from their prior measu

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In a provocative argument designed to rescue his foundering health-care plan, President Barack Obama will warn Senate Democrats in a White House meeting Tuesday that this is the "last chance" to pass comprehensive reform. Obama will contend that if it fails now, no other president will attempt...

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Texas Opens H1N1 Vaccine Supply to General Public http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/news/release s/20091211.shtm

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The Wall Street Journal writes about how Peter Orszag and the White House sold a health-care illusion, but now ObamaCare's core promise—better quality care for everyone at lower costs—is being exposed as an illusion as it degenerates into the raw exercise of political power.

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TMA PREPARES FOR HIT OUTREACH PROJECT In anticipation of upcoming federal grants, TMA’s physician leader on health information technology (HIT) and staff met with leaders of four organizations planning HIT Regional Extension Centers (HITRECs) for Texas. If the grants are approved, TMA would provide outreach and physici...an education for the HITRECs http://evpgram.texmed.org/2009/12/tma-pr epares-for-hit-outreach-project.html
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Perry, Other Top Speakers Slated for TMA Winter Conference. Register now at http://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=3 961
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The family of medicine is at a crossroads of new opportunities and threats that could radically change access to delivery of health care in the United States. As a physician leader, what role will you play in this transformation? Join your colleagues in Austin for TMA's 2010 Winter Conference. ...





















