Your Pertussis Shot Protects Newborns at Holiday Gatherings
As people plan holiday get-togethers again given eased COVID-19 restrictions, physicians urge everyone to take precautions to protect the newest family members - infants - from a different disease: pertussis. Texas Medical Association physicians urge people meeting a newborn family member this holiday season to first get vaccinated against pertussis, or whooping cough. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - November 16, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
TMA Sues Feds Over Unfair Rule for Surprise Billing Law
The Texas Medical Association filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Tyler, Texas, after the Biden administration failed to follow clear direction from Congress about how to implement the dispute resolution process set forth in the No Surprises Act, legislation that was passed in 2020 to protect patients from surprise medical bills. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - November 2, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Medicare Cuts Would Threaten Patients ’ Access to Care
Texas Medicare patients could soon struggle to get a physician ’s care if planned Medicare payment cuts take place on January 1. According to a new Texas Medical Association (TMA) survey, the nearly 10% Medicare pay cut Congress has scheduled for the new year could devastate physicians who care for the senior citizens and people with disabilities covered by t he federal health insurer. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - November 2, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
TMA Airs Pro-Vaccine Ads During Political Conventions
“Vaccines defend what matters – our health, jobs, families.” A new Texas Medical Association (TMA) ad campaign featuring that message will air during the Democratic and Republican conventions to remind Texans of the many ways vaccinations protect us. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - November 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
TMA Sues Feds Over Unfair Rule for Surprise Billing Law
The Texas Medical Association (TMA) filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Tyler, Texas, after the Biden administration failed to follow clear direction from Congress about how to implement the dispute resolution process set forth in the No Surprises Act, legislation that was passed in 2020 to protect patients from surprise medical bills. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - October 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Medicare Cuts Would Threaten Patients ’ Access to Care
Texas Medicare patients could soon struggle to get a physician ’s care if planned Medicare payment cuts take place on January 1. According to a new Texas Medical Association (TMA) survey, the nearly 10% Medicare pay cut Congress has scheduled for the new year could devastate physicians who care for the senior citizens and people with disabilities covered by t he federal health insurer. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - October 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Social Determinants Undermine Patient Health
For many patients, roadblocks like a broken air conditioner neglected by the landlord are the social determinants of health that impact their well-being and quality of life, and can harm their health. Physicians say the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic also revealed how deeply social determinants disproportionately affect certa in populations. For example, due to chronic structural inequities that affect wellbeing, such as safe housing, access to medical care, and certain jobs that carry a higher risk of disease exposure, COVID-19 has disproportionately sickened, hospitalized, and killed people of color and those wit...
Source: TMA News Room - September 30, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
TMA Statement: Enough Is Enough
The Texas Medical Association is shocked the U.S. Supreme Court so far has not stopped the provisions of Senate Bill 8 that create a scheme of deputizing private citizens to carry out what the state itself cannot do, due to U.S. constitutional restrictions. Meanwhile, Senate Bill 4 is on its way to Gov. Greg Abbott with language that criminalizes the practice of medicine. Enough is enough. Read the full statement. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - September 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Physicians Encourage Masking and Vaccination of Students
Statement by Texas Medical Association (TMA) President E. Linda Villarreal, MD; Texas Pediatric Society (TPS) President Seth D. Kaplan, MD; and Texas Public Health Coalition (TPHC) Chair Jason V. Terk, MD, as Texans plan for kids to return to school. The physician and health care groups are calling for children to be protected from COVID-19 due to spikes in cases and hospitalizations from the COVID-19 delta variant. They recommend parents and families follow new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for masking everyone in schools, grades K-12 – regardless of vaccination...
Source: TMA News Room - July 28, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Governor Approves Bill to Reduce Prior Authorization Hassles
Care for countless Texas patients will happen more quickly by reducing health insurers ’ bureaucratic delays, thanks to a bill Gov. Greg Abbott allowed to become law this weekend.The Texas Medical Association (TMA) prioritized curbing health insurers ’ onerous prior authorization practices this legislative session, resulting in passage of House Bill 3459 by Rep. Greg Bonnen, MD (R-Friendswood), and Sen. Dawn Buckingham, MD (R-Lakeway), with considerable support by Sen. Jane Nelson (R-Flower Mound). (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - June 30, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Health Coverage Extensions Will Help Mothers, Children
Women can access critical health care longer after delivering their babies, and more children will continue uninterrupted medical care, thanks to two new bills that will become Texas law. Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed Texas House Bill 133 and House Bill 2658, ensuring longer Medicaid health care coverage for these populations who are susceptible to health complications – even death – if that care is interrupted. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - June 28, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
