MOC - It's All About the $$ - Yes to SB 1148
Oppose Vendor Greed That Isn ’t Shown
to Improve Quality
Senate Bill 1148, scheduled for debate on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives today, clearly states that hospitals and health...
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Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - May 23, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Steve Levine Source Type: blogs
Mandating MOC to practice medicine is an appalling overstep of nonexistent authority
This article was originally published at KevinMD.com.
Maintenance of certification (MOC) for something as significant as the practice of medicine seems...
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Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - May 11, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Me and My Doctor Source Type: blogs
Stop HB 4011: Health Insurance Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
House Bill 4011 amounts to unnecessary overregulation of the business of medicine, and the Texas House of Representatives should reject it.
HB 4011 would require physicians to receive from the patient a signed disclosure form with an itemized statement of the amounts to be billed for nonemergency medical services before those services are provided. If a physician does not obtain this signed document, the physician is prohibited from providing information to a consumer reporting agency regarding the patient ' s outstanding medical debt.Write or call your state representative now.
Eight reasons to oppose HB 4011:The bill wou...
Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - May 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Steve Levine Source Type: blogs
Stop HB 4011: Health Insurance Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
House Bill 4011 amounts to unnecessary overregulation of the business of medicine, and the Texas House of Representatives should reject it.
HB 4011 would require physicians to receive from the...
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Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - May 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Steve Levine Source Type: blogs
Mandate? Hardly.
As in a bad Freddy Krueger movie, rumors of a binding,
incestuous relationship between the Interstate
Medical License Compact and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) just will
not die.
Let’s set...
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Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - April 15, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Steve Levine Source Type: blogs
Speak Up and Be Heard
This article was originally published in the March/April edition of the Travis County Medical Society Journal.
Gosh, it's...
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Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - April 6, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Me and My Doctor Source Type: blogs
Texas Doctors See Post-Election Opportunity to Reshape Health Care
(ORLANDO) -- The 2016 elections brought
physicians an excellent opportunity to rebuild America ’s health care systems,
Texas Medical Association officials say.
“Everything is on the table
— the...
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Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - November 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Steve Levine Source Type: blogs
TEXPAC and Texas Physicians Enjoy Strong Election Results
This unique presidential election brought on many predictions and projections for who would win, but even as the polls closed last night, most voters were unsure of the likely outcome and how it...
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Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - November 9, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Steve Levine Source Type: blogs
