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Nominate a Local Journalist

Pat Overton — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:55:24 GMT

For the first time, members of the TMA family can nominate local journalists for the TMA Anson Jones, MD, Awards, which recognize excellence in health journalism in Texas. So if you read, see, or hear a great health-related story, let us know.

5010 Deadline Extended; Dual Eligible Problem Not Fixed

Pat Overton — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:18:54 GMT

Acknowledging that many physicians and billing entities still aren't ready, federal officials are giving physicians three more months before it begins enforcing the use of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) 5010 transaction standards. The new deadline is June 30.

Tell Congress to Fix the SGR

Shari Henson — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:45:54 GMT

It's SGR crunch time again. In about two weeks, the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula will drive a 27.4-percent cut in physicians' Medicare payments unless Congress steps in first. Hopes that Washington would finally repeal the SGR seem to wax and wane daily, as the issue is tied up with the partisan debate over extending Social Security tax cuts and extending unemployment benefits.

TMA Scores Major Victories for Physicians, Patients

Shari Henson — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:56:29 GMT

It was a tough legislative session from the outset. With an enormous budget deficit and special interest groups from hospitals to midlevel practitioners to those who wanted to emasculate the Texas Medical Board lining up to take on organized medicine, it seemed the Texas Medical Association's agenda for the 2011 Texas Legislature faced tough sledding. But when the session ended on May 30, TMA scored some dramatic victories for physicians and your patients.