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  • iconSuicide Risk in Kids With Adverse Childhood Experiences Exacerbated by Pandemic - 9/13/2024 10:38:04 PM

    Suicide and suicidal thoughts among high school students who have accumulated adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) became a concern among health care professionals before 2020. But the “social and educational disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

  • iconGrants 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 ...

  • iconGrants 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...

  • icon2022-2023 Community Grants - 6/28/2023 3:44:06 PM

    COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETIES AND ALLIANCE CHAPTERS – Medical Community Grants Physician Coaching and Wellness Program/ Bexar County Medical Society: This program provides an effective, evidenced-based physician coaching experience that decreases burnout...

  • iconEvidence-Based Strategies Key to Fighting Texas Suicide Rates - 11/29/2022 7:38:43 PM

    As 34.2% of adults in Texas report symptoms of anxiety and depression, Texas physicians are calling for the support and expansion of evidence-based strategies and telemedicine services to bolster mental health care across the state. That was the foc...

  • iconPhysicians Serve as Lead Clinicians to Support Mental Health Intervention - 11/17/2022 7:56:20 PM

    The impact of adverse childhood events (ACEs) can be lasting and costly on patient health and medical outcomes.  In the United States, more than 20% of adults report experiencing three ACEs during their youth, potentially increasing the risk of...

  • iconWellness First: TMA Recommits to Physicians' Well-being - 11/1/2022 2:49:57 PM

    Fourth-year medical student Alyssa Greenwood Francis lost both parents during her first year at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine in El Paso and worried that taking time off would hurt her career prosp...

  • iconTMA Puts Physicians’ Wellness First With New Program - 9/21/2022 10:30:27 PM

    Fourth-year medical student Alyssa Greenwood Francis lost both parents during her first year at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine and worried that taking time off would hurt her career prospects.  Ho...

  • iconPandemic Pressures:COVID-19 Poses Serious Behavioral Health Challenges - 9/20/2022 10:34:34 PM

    The mental health fallout caused by COVID-19 radiates throughout Texas, with the most severe damage occurring where the virus hits most directly. “Entire families are affected,” says James Castillo, MD, an internist who provides palliative and ...

  • iconThe Only Alternative: Medicaid Practices May Not Be Viable Without Value-Based Care - 7/29/2022 11:15:10 PM

    For a practice that predominantly sees Medicaid patients, a transition to unfamiliar, value-based payment models can seem like a seriously heavy lift.  But another heavy lift has persisted for more than two decades, and it hasn’t gotten any lig...

  • iconBurnout a National Problem; TMA Wellness Fund Can Help - 6/6/2022 10:59:47 PM

    In a recent advisory calling attention to health care worker burnout, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, highlighted the broad response the situation calls for: “We must ensure that every health worker has access to affordable, confidential,...

  • iconTexMed 2022 CME Schedule - 4/18/2022 6:00:47 PM

    The Texas Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Unless otherwise stated, each session listed has been approved for 0.75 A...

  • iconTMA Supports Copay Reductions for Vets at High Suicide Risk - 3/11/2022 10:01:00 PM

      Supporting a rule proposal by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that would increase access to care for veterans deemed at high risk of suicide, the Texas Medical Association also offered other suggestions to help VA keep veterans f...

  • iconSurgeon General: Mental Health of Young People Suffering Due to COVID-19 - 3/10/2022 10:49:09 PM

    COVID-19 took a population of young Americans already reeling from a variety of mental health challenges and “exacerbated the unprecedented stresses young people already faced,” according to a public advisory issued by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek...

  • iconAllies in Medicine: TMA Alliance Champions Physicians, Families - 2/16/2022 3:45:12 PM

    When a disturbing trend emerged in the Lubbock emergency department where Eman Attaya, MD, works, it sparked the idea for what has become the Texas Medical Association’s newest public health campaign designed to help families better control how much ...

  • iconHelp Families Manage Screen Time – and Mental Health – With TMA’s “Turn It Off Today” Campaign - 11/29/2021 12:33:59 AM

    When a disturbing mental health trend emerged in the Lubbock emergency department where Eman Attaya, MD, works, it sparked the Texas Medical Association’s newest educational program to help families better control how much their kids interact with el...

  • iconCommentary: What Really Is Wounding the Healer? - 10/31/2021 4:49:38 PM

    There are few issues in medicine and health care that are the subject of more controversy than the semantics of what wounds physicians. Are we suffering from “moral injury” or “burnout” or “compassion fatigue” or “vicarious trauma” or “depression?”  ...

  • iconMedical Burnout: Breaking Bad - 6/23/2021 9:57:42 PM

    By Dharam Kaushik, MD Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in AAMC’s News & Insights. Commentaries published in Texas Medicine Today do not necessarily reflect official Texas Medical Association policy. The year was 2007, and I was a...

  • iconBehavioral Health in the Wake of COVID-19 and the Health Care Community’s Response - 5/27/2021 11:27:36 PM

    Reprinted with permission from the Texas Health Institute. The views expressed here are not necessarily those of the Texas Medical Association.  By Daniel Crowe, MD, FACP The coronavirus pandemic of 2020-21 has had a profound impact on the men...

  • iconDelegates Tackle Vaccines, Burnout, Health Plan Practices During Virtual Annual Meeting - 5/24/2021 5:34:12 PM

    At the second live virtual convention of the Texas Medical Association House of Delegates, physicians carried out their policymaking duties to improve the health of all Texans despite being scattered across the state. Delegates made headway on polic...

  • iconPrioritize Your Wellness With Help from TMA and the Physician Health and Wellness Committee - 5/23/2021 1:32:41 AM

    Physicians are so busy taking care of their patients, their families, and their communities they often don’t take care of themselves. Your health matters, and the Texas Medical Association has many resources to help take care of you.   TMA encourages...

  • iconIn Defense of Public Health: Peter Hotez, MD, on the Comeback of Preventable Diseases - 5/5/2021 6:35:45 PM

    Of all the Texas physicians who promote vaccines, none are as well-known as Peter Hotez, MD. His resume for this self-appointed task is ideal: internationally recognized physician-scientist; professor of pediatrics and dean of the National School o...

  • iconHelpful Links - 3/29/2021 3:25:06 PM

        A list of toolkits, modules, scales, surveys, and inventories are provided below. (*) Proprietary Resources, Toolkits, Statistics, and Surveys   Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education  American Acad...

  • iconMental Health Care for New Moms Costs Texas $2.2 billion Each Year, Report Says - 3/4/2021 11:29:59 PM

    Texas physicians know that pregnant women and new mothers struggle with maternal mental health conditions (MMHCs) such as post-partum depression and anxiety. Now all those MMHCs have been given a statewide price tag. Texas spends about $2.2 billion...

  • iconSTIs, Firearm Safety, Mental Health Among Revised Public School Curriculum Standards - 9/21/2020 8:55:30 PM

    For the first time since 1997, Texas is overhauling health education in public school.  After the State Board of Education took a major step this month toward finalizing new health education curriculum standards, Texas public school students – ...

  • iconFar-Reaching Implications: The Ripple Effects of Texas' Uninsured Rate - 12/4/2019 2:39:56 PM

    When you hear that more than 5 million Texans – more than one-sixth of the state’s population – are uninsured, your first reaction might be sympathy. You might think it’s a terrible thing for the people and families who fall in that category who can’...

  • iconMoral Injury: The Pandemic for Physicians - 3/1/2019 2:31:34 PM

    Moral distress in health care, as defined in 1984 by Andrew Jameton1, is “knowing what to do in an ethical situation, but not being allowed to do it.”  While moral distress in everyday clinical practice has been identified in the nurse’s arena ...

  • iconTexas Needs HB 10 and the Texas Behavioral Health Research Institute - 2/27/2019 10:29:55 PM

    TMA Testimony by Uchenna Umeh, MD House Public Health Committee Feb. 27, 2019 Written testimony submitted on behalf of: Texas Medical Association Texas Pediatric Society  Federation of Texas Psychiatry On behalf of the Texas Medi...

  • icon2016 Texas Medicine Index of Subjects - 1/24/2017 7:38:28 PM

    Volume 112 — 2016 Subjects A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z A AAAAI (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology) compounding a problem? allergists say proposed stan...

  • iconTransgender Youth Slide Presentation - 6/20/2016 5:39:05 PM

    Update on the Care of Transgender Youth: Social-Emotional Considerations and Medical Interventions Meredith R. Chapman, MD Ximena Lopez, MD GENder, Education and Care Interdisciplinary Support Program (GENECIS) Children’s Medical Center Dal...

  • iconPriority Overview: Mental Health - 6/17/2016 4:06:39 PM

    Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders CSPH Priority Overview Indicator Value Notes Prevalence Mental health: -26.2% of U.S. adults are affected by mental illness annually. -46.4% of adults experience a mental illness in their lif...

  • iconMental Health Priority Overview - 6/17/2016 3:59:18 PM

    Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders CSPH Priority Overview Indicator Value Notes Prevalence Mental health: -26.2% of U.S. adults are affected by mental illness annually. -46.4% of adults experience a mental illness in their lif...

  • iconFtWorth_postPPACA_WCfees - 10/25/2010 11:47:45 PM

    Sheet1 2010 Texas Workers Comp Fee Schedule - Including changes made by the federal Affordable Care Act effective March 23, 2010 Ft. Worth Non-facility Fee Facility Fee- Non-Surgical Facility Fee- Surgical OPPS Non-Facility Cap (if app...

  • iconRest_of_Texas_County_WCFee09 - 10/25/2010 10:50:52 PM

    Sheet1 2009 Workers Comp Fee Schedule Rest of Texas ADJUSTED ADJUSTED TRANSITIONED TRANSITIONED NON-FACILITY FACILITY FACILITY FEE FEE - NON- SURGICAL FEE HCPCS MOD DESCRIPTION G0101 CA screen;pelvic/breast ...

  • iconHarris_County_WCFee09 - 10/25/2010 10:49:40 PM

    Sheet1 2009 Workers Comp Fee Schedule Houston ADJUSTED ADJUSTED TRANSITIONED TRANSITIONED NON-FACILITY FACILITY FACILITY FEE FEE - NON- SURGICAL FEE HCPCS MOD DESCRIPTION G0101 CA screen;pelvic/breast exam 5...

  • iconGalveston_County_WCFee09 - 10/25/2010 10:48:48 PM

    Sheet1 2009 Workers Comp Fee Schedule Galveston ADJUSTED ADJUSTED TRANSITIONED TRANSITIONED NON-FACILITY FACILITY FACILITY FEE FEE - NON- SURGICAL FEE HCPCS MOD DESCRIPTION G0101 CA screen;pelvic/breast exam...

  • iconTarrant_County_WCFee09 - 10/25/2010 10:47:50 PM

    Sheet1 2009 Workers Comp Fee Schedule Ft. Worth ADJUSTED ADJUSTED TRANSITIONED TRANSITIONED NON-FACILITY FACILITY FACILITY FEE FEE - NON- SURGICAL FEE HCPCS MOD DESCRIPTION G0101 CA screen;pelvic/breast exam...

  • iconDallas_County_WCFee09 - 10/25/2010 10:46:53 PM

    Sheet1 2009 Workers Comp Fee Schedule Dallas ADJUSTED ADJUSTED TRANSITIONED TRANSITIONED NON-FACILITY FACILITY FACILITY FEE FEE - NON- SURGICAL FEE HCPCS MOD DESCRIPTION G0101 CA screen;pelvic/breast exam 51...

  • iconBrazoria_County_WCFee09 - 10/25/2010 10:45:50 PM

    Sheet1 2009 Workers Comp Fee Schedule Brazoria County ADJUSTED ADJUSTED TRANSITIONED TRANSITIONED NON-FACILITY FACILITY FACILITY FEE FEE - NON- SURGICAL FEE HCPCS MOD DESCRIPTION G0101 CA screen;pelvic/breas...

  • iconJefferson_County_WCFee09 - 10/25/2010 10:45:00 PM

    Sheet1 2009 Workers Comp Fee Schedule Beaumont ADJUSTED ADJUSTED TRANSITIONED TRANSITIONED NON-FACILITY FACILITY FACILITY FEE FEE - NON- SURGICAL FEE HCPCS MOD DESCRIPTION G0101 CA screen;pelvic/breast exam ...

  • iconTravis_County_WCFee09 - 10/25/2010 10:44:08 PM

    Sheet1 2009 Workers Comp Fee Schedule Austin ADJUSTED ADJUSTED TRANSITIONED TRANSITIONED NON-FACILITY FACILITY FACILITY FEE FEE - NON- SURGICAL FEE - SURGICAL HCPCS MOD DESCRIPTION G0101 CA screen;pelvic/bre...

  • iconRestofTexas2010_WCFeeSchedule - 10/25/2010 10:28:30 PM

    Sheet1 2010 Workers comp fee schedule Calculated as of November, 2009 Note: Possible Medicare GPCI changes subsequent to 11/12/2009 will require recalculation Rest of Texas Non-facility Fee Facility Fee - Non-Surgical Facility F...

  • iconHouston2010_WCFeeSchedule - 10/25/2010 10:27:35 PM

    Sheet1 2010 Workers comp fee schedule Calculated as of November, 2009 Note: Possible Medicare GPCI changes subsequent to 11/12/2009 will require recalculation Houston Non-facility Fee Facility Fee - Non-Surgical Facility Fee - S...

  • iconFtWorth2010_WCFeeSchedule - 10/25/2010 10:26:23 PM

    Sheet1 2010 Workers comp fee schedule Calculated as of November, 2009 Note: Possible Medicare GPCI changes subsequent to 11/12/2009 will require recalculation Ft. Worth Non-facility Fee Facility Fee - Non-Surgical Facility Fee -...

  • iconDallas2010_WCFeeSchedule - 10/25/2010 10:25:18 PM

    Sheet1 2010 Workers comp fee schedule Calculated as of November, 2009 Note: Possible Medicare GPCI changes subsequent to 11/12/2009 will require recalculation Dallas Non-facility Fee Facility Fee - Non-Surgical Facility Fee - Su...

  • iconBrazoria2010_WCFeeSchedule - 10/25/2010 10:24:29 PM

    Sheet1 2010 Workers comp fee schedule Calculated as of November, 2009 Note: Possible Medicare GPCI changes subsequent to 11/12/2009 will require recalculation Brazoria County Non-facility Fee Facility Fee - Non-Surgical Facility...

  • iconBeaumont2010_WCFeeSchedule - 10/25/2010 10:23:35 PM

    Sheet1 2010 Workers comp fee schedule Calculated as of November, 2009 Note: Possible Medicare GPCI changes subsequent to 11/12/2009 will require recalculation Beaumont Non-facility Fee Facility Fee - Non-Surgical Facility Fee - ...

  • iconAustin2010_WCFeeSchedule - 10/25/2010 10:22:28 PM

    Sheet1 2010 Workers comp fee schedule Calculated as of November, 2009 Note: Possible Medicare GPCI changes subsequent to 11/12/2009 will require recalculation Austin Non-facility Fee Facility Fee - Non-Surgical Facility Fee - Su...

  • iconHouston_postPPACA_WCfees - 10/25/2010 10:01:29 PM

    Sheet1 2010 Texas Workers Comp Fee Schedule - Including changes made by the federal Affordable Care Act effective March 23, 2010 Houston Non-facility Fee Facility Fee- Non-Surgical Facility Fee- Surgical OPPS Non-Facility Cap (if appli...

  • iconGalveston2010_WCFeeSchedule - 10/25/2010 10:00:31 PM

    Sheet1 2010 Workers comp fee schedule Calculated as of November, 2009 Corrected to correct Galveston erro on 8/18/2010 Note: Possible Medicare GPCI changes subsequent to 11/12/2009 will require recalculation Galveston Non-facil...