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Ready for MACRA? TMA Can Help
Earlier today, the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). Physician practices across the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: TMA Blogged Arteries)
Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - October 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Steve Levine Source Type: blogs

Does the government know what it ’s doing to physicians?
This article first appeared in the KevinMD.com blog. Reprinted with permission.) Physicians spend almost twice as much time each day... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: TMA Blogged Arteries)
Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - September 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Me and My Doctor Source Type: blogs

" We have deliberately set the game so that you cannot win "
Shortly before a senior Medicare official came to visit his Dallas office in late June, Texas Medical Association President Don R. Read, MD, shared withTexas Medicine his thoughts on the agency ' s draft rules implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). Dr. Read compared changing complexity of Medicare rules to a progression from a simple game of checkers to a new game no one understands, whose rules are written in Mayan hieroglyph, and which " you cannot win. "Listen to theshort audio clip, or read the full transcript below. “This is how MACRA comes across to me. With original Medic...
Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - July 12, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Steve Levine Source Type: blogs

Medicare Man Enters the Maw of MACRA Malcontent
To hear Dallas physician leaders Don Read, MD, and Rick Snyder, MD, tell it, if they can ’t make it, no one can. And right now, Drs. Read and Snyder are extremely pessimistic about their practices... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: TMA Blogged Arteries)
Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - July 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Steve Levine Source Type: blogs

Medicare Man Enters the Maw of MACRA Malcontent
To hear Dallas physician leaders Don Read, MD, and Rick Snyder, MD, tell it, if they can’t make it, no one can. And right now, Drs. Read and Snyder are extremely pessimistic about their practices... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: TMA Blogged Arteries)
Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - June 30, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: steve.levine at texmed.org Source Type: blogs

MACRA Rule: Not What Congress Ordered
This article first appeared in the KevinMD.com blog. Reprinted with permission.) I joined physicians nationwide last year in cheering... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: TMA Blogged Arteries)
Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - June 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Steve Levine Source Type: blogs

MACRA Rule: Not What Congress Ordered
This article first appeared in the KevinMD.com blog. Reprinted with permission.) I joined physicians nationwide last year in cheering... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: TMA Blogged Arteries)
Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - June 20, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: steve.levine at texmed.org Source Type: blogs

VA Official Defends Proposed Scope of Practice Change
(CHICAGO) - The Department of Veterans Affairs ’ plan to allow advance practice nurses (APRNs) to practice independently within the VA is “all about access,” a top official in the VA health care... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: TMA Blogged Arteries)
Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - June 12, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Steve Levine Source Type: blogs

VA Official Defends Proposed Scope of Practice Change
(CHICAGO) - The Department of Veterans Affairs’ plan to allow advance practice nurses (APRNs) to practice independently within the VA is “all about access,” a top official in the VA health care... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: TMA Blogged Arteries)
Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - June 11, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: steve.levine at texmed.org Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Morning Memo: Election Day Turns Out Great for Doctors, Patients – and #TEXPAC
By Steve Levine TMA VP – Communications While much of the state was engrossed in the obviously engrossing Super Tuesday presidential primary results last night, the Texas Medical Association... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: TMA Blogged Arteries)
Source: TMA Blogged Arteries - March 2, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Steve Levine Source Type: blogs