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TMA President Bradford W. Holland, MD

The Texas Medical Association (TMA) installed Bradford W. Holland, MD, as its 161st president during TexMed, the association’s annual conference, held in Corpus Christi this year. He assumes this one-year role after serving as TMA’s president-elect during the past year. Dr. Holland becomes the first TMA president from Waco in more than 50 years.

“I am very honored to lead TMA and to improve the health of all Texans,” said Dr. Holland. “My focus will always be on standing up for patient care and protecting the practice of medicine.”

Dr. Holland aims to address issues like allowing physician ownership of hospitals, site neutrality to ensure physicians are paid the same regardless of where health care is provided, and to revisit other laws that treat doctors differently than other professions. He looks forward to working with lawmakers during the upcoming legislative session to find solutions to these challenges.

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Dr. Holland's Eight-Point Plan to Take Medicine Back

“Our health care system needs a rescue,” Bradford W. Holland, MD, declared as he rolled out his eight-point plan to Take Medicine Back.

“Physicians must be the ones to improve health care for themselves and their patients,” he said. His eight points:

Restore physician-owned hospitals;

Repeal Medicare self-referral restrictions under the federal Stark Law;

Tie Medicare physician payment updates to inflation and implement site-neutral payments that ensure physicians receive the same payment regardless of where they care for patients;

Revisit nonprofit tax status for health systems when they function like for-profit entities;

Reform Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) insurance exemptions, for as he put it, those “loopholes allow insurance companies to deny care with limited oversight;”

Protect physician judgment in the age of artificial intelligence;

Support a collective voice for employed physicians; and

Reclaim the profession of medicine by rejecting the term “provider” as a substitute for “physician.”
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TMA President Bradford W. Holland, MD

Dr. Holland's Eight-Point Plan to Take Medicine Back

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