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Governor Vetoes Bill Gutting Medical Board - 6/24/2025 7:29:34 PM

The full force of the Texas Medical Association’s advocacy came to bear in Gov. Greg Abbott’s June 22 veto of Senate Bill 268, which would have eviscerated an important Texas Medical Board (TMB) function in halting the unlicensed practice of medicine...
Where Are They Now? 15 Years of Leadership College: Lenore DePagter, DO - 6/5/2025 8:42:03 PM

For Lenore DePagter, DO, MBA, blazing a trail as part of the Texas Medical Association Leadership College’s (TMALC’s) inaugural 2011 class ultimately set her on a path to a career using her hard-earned new skills. As medical director for Dris...
Maternal Health, THC Study Prioritized by TMA House - 6/3/2025 2:37:37 PM

Shoring up access to maternal care and analyzing safety around THC emerged as top public health priorities for the Texas Medical Association’s House of Delegates at TexMed May 10 in San Antonio. Oversight and transparency mandates for cr...
Articles and Papers on Legal Issues - 5/22/2025 5:20:09 PM

The following articles and white papers are a TMA members-only benefit. Abortion Americans with Disabilities Act Advertising Charity Health Care Compassionate Use Act Consent Corporate Practice of Me...
05.12.2025 SB 2024 Physician Groups Back Bill to Limit ECigarette Advertising, Designs Targeting Kids - 5/12/2025 4:31:11 PM
Texas Medicine Magazine - 5/5/2025 4:20:22 PM

A Publication of the Texas Medical Association Texas Medicine is available to TMA members and presents timely information on public health, medicolegal issues, medical economics, science, medical education, and legislative affairs affect...
Marketing Your Practice - 4/12/2025 1:04:10 AM

Articles Four Reasons Your Practice Should Start an Online Store (Texas Medicine Today, Dec. 1, 2020) Four Tips For Creating An Effective Online Presence (Texas Medicine Today, Mar. 13, 2019) Online Reviews Can Have a Big Impact on Your Practice...
E-Cigarette Regulation Heard in Senate, House Committees - 4/7/2025 9:14:47 PM

Legislation to regulate e-cigarette advertising, definitions, and distribution, especially geared toward minimizing harm to minors, garnered significant committee attention over the last couple of weeks with robust testimony by the Texas Medical Asso...
Insurance Concerns Dominate TMA Testimony - 3/31/2025 5:41:13 PM

The Texas Medical Association appealed to the Texas Legislature last week to guard patients from inadequate health insurance coverage and physicians from unfair ranking and tiering practices, while supporting increased oversight and streamlining of c...
03.27.2025 TMA TPS TPHC Support Plan to Limit ECig Advertising to Protect Kids - 3/28/2025 1:47:25 AM
TMA Foundation General Endowment Improving the Health of More Texans - 3/21/2025 1:45:29 PM

The General Endowment has funded $276,239 program grants and $463,401 for TMAF operations capacity in the nearly seven years it has made distributions. 2024-2025 Grants Continued support to improve the health and well-being of chil...
Practice e-Tips on Marketing Your Practice - 3/17/2025 5:25:45 PM

Advertising Build a Strong Online Presence Follow the Law When You Advertise Board Certification Testimonials in Advertising Thinking of Creating a Brochure for Your Practice? Marketing Strategy Designing a Marketing Strategy Ways to Boo...
Practice E-Tips on Legal Topics - 3/17/2025 3:30:12 PM

Advertising/Marketing | Billing & Coding | Contracts | Court | Delegation of Duties | Health Care Payment Plans | HIPAA | Informed Consent | Medicaid & Medicare | Medical R...
‘Tremendously Lifesaving’: The Physicians Benevolent Fund Helped Robert Boyd, MD, Fight Depression - 2/27/2025 7:39:30 PM

Almost two decades ago, Lubbock anesthesiologist Robert Boyd, MD, was forced to leave his practice due to debilitating pain and limited mobility exacerbated by a spinal condition. To stay afloat, he had to rely on private disability and social secur...
Physicians Ask Lawmakers to Make Social Media Safer for Children, Prevent Data Mining - 2/3/2025 7:30:02 PM

Jan. 7, 2025 It is a common sight: children and teens scrolling through social media apps for hours on their phones or tablets. Social media addiction can cut into time spent studying, playing with friends, or even eating meals. Studies show ...
Teens Vulnerable to Social Media Harm, Exploitation, TMA Tells Legislators - 1/14/2025 5:20:50 PM

An interim legislative committee exploring the effects of social media on minors heard harrowing personal contributions from panelists including the Texas Medical Association in the service of one goal – keeping kids safe as they navigate the minefie...
Division of Communications and Marketing - 1/8/2025 8:22:11 PM

The Division of Communications helps establish and meet Texas Medical Association's goals for communicating with its members, the media, general public, and other special audiences. Manages the TMA Web site. Contact: Pam Udall, Vice Pres...
Marketing Toolkit - 11/7/2024 9:16:21 PM

Two important parts of many physicians’ business are marketing and advertising to attract new patients to the practice. In advertising, however, physicians must take note of important rules implemented by the Texas Medical Board and other agencies re...
Got Questions? TMA’s Knowledge Center Has Answers, With a Human Touch - 11/7/2024 4:07:30 PM

Physicians undergo years of training and practice to amass the knowledge that equips them to lead a patient’s care. So they can spend more time in clinical care, the Texas Medical Association Knowledge Center helps them navigate the rest. The...
About Texas Medicine - 11/4/2024 7:05:02 PM

Texas Medicine is published monthly by the Texas Medical Association. Copyright 2014 Texas Medical Association. Subscription rates are, for members, $20 per year; for nonmembers and institutions, $40 per year; and for foreig...
Business of Medicine Conference Bolsters Physicians in Turbulent Market - 8/23/2024 8:06:00 PM

Taxes, staffing, personal finances, long-term business planning. Physician practices face no shortage of economic and logistical challenges outside the exam room. To help members navigate those problems with practical, tangible advice, the Texas Medi...
TMA … Your Resource Center! - 8/14/2024 2:31:43 PM

If you need information on the topics listed below, dial (800) 880-1300 and ask for the extension listed or dial (512) 370- plus the four-digit extension. For information on topics not listed, call TMA's main number (800) 880-1300 or (512) 370-1300. ...
Grants to 2024 Programs - 7/18/2024 2:37:16 PM

TMA GRANTS - In support of TMA’s population health, science, and quality of care priorities Vaccines Defend What Matters (VDWM): VDWM is TMA’s integrated, multimedia education and advocacy effort to overcome vaccine hesitancy and increase ...
Making the Past Present: TMA Committee Preserves Physician Accomplishments - 6/24/2024 2:46:56 AM

For decades, the fifth floor of the Texas Medical Association building in Austin had housed an archival collection of thousands of books, photographs, and artifacts documenting the rich history of Texas medicine. One day in October 2018, there it wa...
The Knowledge Center Turns 20: Answering Physicians' Questions and Stewarding Medical History - 4/9/2024 5:17:22 PM

Physicians undergo years of training and practice to amass the knowledge that equips them to lead a patient’s care. So they can spend more time in clinical care, the Texas Medical Association Knowledge Center helps them navigate the rest. ...
TDI Proposed Rules for State Network Adequacy Law Raise Strong Concerns - 3/20/2024 3:09:54 PM

After securing network adequacy reform during the 2023 regular state legislative session, the Texas Medical Association has shifted its focus to ensuring the Texas Department of Insurance’s (TDI’s) network adequacy rules conform to the plain lan...
Protections for You and Your Choice - 3/19/2024 6:20:14 PM

Sample Complaint Form When an insurer or health plan refuses to pay for medical treatment, patients and their families must carry the burden of paying for the doctors, laboratory tests, and hospitals. But the risks are higher, an...
Health in the News - 3/12/2024 7:06:50 PM

TMA News Releases - news releases produced by the TMA media and public relations staff AHA Health News Now - the daily report for health care executives. AHRQ Healthcare 411 - the Agency for Healthcare Research and Qu...
2021 Programs - 10/23/2023 9:08:43 PM

TMA Grants - In support of TMA’s population health, science, and quality of care priorities TMA's Vaccines Defend What Matters TMA’s Hard Hats for Little Heads TMA’s Ernest and Sarah Butler Awards for Excellence in Science Teaching TMA’s Dive...
2021 TMAF-Funded Programs - 10/23/2023 9:02:00 PM

TMA and TMAA GRANTS In support of TMA’s population health, science, and quality of care prioritiesNEW! Vaccines Defend What Matters (VDWM): VDWM is TMA’s integrated, multimedia education and advocacy effort to overcome vaccine hesitancy and incr...
2020 PROGRAMS FUNDED - 10/23/2023 8:18:42 PM

TMA’s Ernest and Sarah Butler Awards for Excellence in Science Teaching TMA’s Hard Hats for Little Heads TMA’s Walk With a Doc Texas TMA’s History of Medicine Banner Program Texas Two Step CPR TMA’s Diversity in Medicine Scholarship Pr...
2018 Grants - 10/20/2023 10:34:56 PM

GRANTS TO TMA TMA’s Be Wise — Immunize (BWI): BWI is a public health initiative that promotes the importance, safety and effectiveness of vaccinations. The program combines education for physicians and patients with hands-on vaccination cl...
Proposition 8 Aims to Expand Broadband Access - 10/16/2023 5:07:42 PM

The fate of a $1.5 billion Texas Broadband Infrastructure Fund rests on a Nov. 7 referendum to expand internet connectivity to roughly 7 million residents who lack access to affordable and reliable high-speed internet. Texans can vote on Propo...
TMA’s Banner Exhibits Take Medical History on the Road - 8/23/2023 5:56:19 PM

The Texas Medical Association’s sesquicentennial in 2003 gave TMA and its physicians plenty of reason to celebrate. One hundred and fifty years of helping patients is a great accomplishment, and to commemorate it, the board-appointed History of Medic...
The History of Medicine Gallery Brings Physicians’ Triumphs to the Public - 8/22/2023 10:25:32 PM

In 1989, with a new Texas Medical Association headquarters set to open in Austin, the newly reformed, board-appointed History of Medicine Committee had a vision. With rare and novel artifacts in TMA’s archive, and a long and storied history of succes...
TMA Archive Brings Medicine’s Past Into the Future - 8/21/2023 5:46:22 PM

Over a hundred years ago, the Texas Medical Association’s 35th president Frank Paschal, MD, of San Antonio, had eyes on the future. In his 1904 presidential address, he told the House of Delegates, “The labors of this Association should always be con...
Patient-Physician Electronic Communication - 7/20/2023 10:11:25 PM

Subject: Patient-Physician Electronic Communication Presented by: Philip Suarez, MD, Chair TMA Council on Communication Referred to: Reference Committee on Socioeconomics At TexMed 2001, the TMA ...
Grants to 2023 Programs - 7/13/2023 10:24:35 PM

TMA GRANTS In support of TMA’s population health, science, and quality of care priorities Vaccines Defend What Matters (VDWM): VDWM is TMA’s integrated, multimedia education and advocacy effort to overcome vac...
Grants to 2023 Programs - 7/13/2023 10:08:51 PM

TMA GRANTS - In support of TMA’s population health, science, and quality of care priorities Vaccines Defend What Matters (VDWM): VDWM is TMA’s integrated, multimedia education and advocacy effort to overcome vaccine hesitancy and increase ...
TMA Board of Councilors Current Opinions - 2/25/2023 10:59:46 PM

TMA Board of Councilors Current Opinions INTRODUCTION The Board of Councilors serves as the ethical policy making body of the Texas Medical Association. First constituted in 1903, the Board is composed of a Councilor and Vice Councilor from the 15 ...
Disabilities Throughout History Banner 2 - 1/6/2023 9:22:21 PM
Grants to 2022 Programs - 1/3/2023 8:13:16 PM

TMA GRANTS In support of TMA’s population health, science, and quality of care priorities Vaccines Defend What Matters (VDWM): VDWM is TMA’s integrated, multimedia education and advocacy effort to overcome vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccin...
Disabilities Throughout History Banner 3 - 9/28/2022 9:16:54 PM
Disabilities Throughout History Banner 1 - 9/28/2022 9:13:20 PM
Sixteen Ways to Save Money in Your Practice - 9/23/2021 9:53:42 PM

Looking for ways to trim practice expenses? Here are some easy suggestions for saving a little here and a little there. It can add up. Buy office supplies and other nonmedical supplies in bulk from a store like Costco. Shop online for office supp...
No Escape: COVID-19 Continues to Exacerbate Physician Burnout - 9/17/2021 3:07:22 PM

Part of why COVID-19 has had such a devastating impact on the physician psyche isn’t just what’s been happening inside America’s medical settings since March 2020. It’s also what’s been happening outside – the same restrictions, b...
Job Descriptions: More Than Just for Hiring - 9/7/2021 9:48:14 PM

The first step in hiring for any position in your practice is to write a job description. When composing a job description, you should describe: The purpose and responsibilities of the position, The daily and periodic duties of the position...
TMA Website Terms of Use - 8/24/2021 7:15:29 PM

Acceptance of the Terms of Use. These terms of use are entered into by and between You and Texas Medical Association ("Company," "we," or "us"). The following terms and conditions (“Terms of Use") govern y...
It’s Not all Smoke and Mirrors - 5/24/2021 2:47:53 PM

With a grant from TMA Foundation, children and adults alike will learn about the health risks of smoking and tobacco use, particularly vaping and using e-cigarettes, through TMA’s updated traveling exhibit, Smoke and Mirrors. Originally produced in 2...
Courage and Determination Banners - 5/13/2021 3:20:22 PM

Courage and Determination: A History of African Americans in Medicine is our newest traveling banner series. Travel from ancient Egypt through modern Texas history to learn more about the many contributions Black people have made in the field ...