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Clinical Care COVID-19 Resources - 10/16/2023 9:02:31 PM

Printable Materials for Your Practice Customizable Physician Letters Permission Letter for Return to School Practice Log Forms Disinfectant Log Staff Temperature Log COVID-19 Symptom Tracker Safety Poster for Medical Practices...
2016 Clinical Abstract Form - 5/13/2016 8:20:38 PM

TexMed 2016 Clinical Abstract Please complete all of the following sections: Procedure and Selection Criteria Submissions not directly related to quality improvement or research may be accepted and should follow the standardized format outline...
TexMed 2017 Clinical Abstract Form 1 - 6/28/2016 4:02:49 PM

TexMed 2017 Clinical Abstract Please complete all of the following sections: Procedure and Selection Criteria Submissions not directly related to quality improvement or research may be accepted and should follow the standardized format outline...
02.23.2026 FEDERAL TMA Comment Letter to ASTP/ONC in response to RFI Accelerating Adoption and Use of AI in Clinical Care - 2/23/2026 4:30:30 PM
Clinical_Test_Letter - 5/8/2018 3:08:20 PM
Clinical Gait Assessment - 4/29/2025 3:28:42 PM
Value-Based Care: Why Should I Care? - 7/21/2026 9:02:25 PM

The basic concept is simple: if a physician network/ACO can successfully manage the health of its overall patient population, achieve better clinical outcomes, and reduce total health care spending, patients fare better and physicians share in the co...
Accountable Care in the Texas Marketplace - 5/13/2016 3:52:55 PM

Accountable Care in the Texas Marketplace Last Update: Jan. 21, 2013 The following data was collected from the TMA membership database, reports provided by county medical society executives, business journal articles, information from the Texas ...
Coding with Care: Knowing Billing Codes for Complex Care Can Maximize Revenue, Access to Care - 8/28/2024 5:51:32 PM

Round Rock family medicine physician Tina Philip, DO, routinely cares for patients with complicated, chronic needs and regularly checks for new codes or updates that could boost her solo practice’s revenue for that effort. However, she often finds th...
Class Care: School-Based Health Centers Deliver Care to At-Risk Youth - 8/27/2024 10:47:01 PM

School-based health centers (SBHCs) are designed to improve efficiency in health care, and that showed recently at the Manor Mustang Health Center, which serves a geographically large area between Austin and Elgin. A young student presented wit...
Is Medicare’s Chronic Care Management Program for You? - 7/24/2026 2:34:51 PM

Interested in the possibility of getting paid as much as $75,000, or even more, for something you already more or less do? Medicare now pays separately for chronic care management (CCM) services under the Medicare physician fee schedule. CCM se...
TMA Offers Solutions to Curb Health Care Costs - 8/4/2026 8:51:04 PM

June 10, 2026 Physicians’ Testimony to Legislators Outlines Causes, Remedies To curb rising health care costs, physicians say Texas must reduce administrative waste, preserve meaningful coverage, and scru...
CMS to Recoup Chronic Care Management Payments - 8/21/2023 8:55:53 PM

Some Texas physicians and outpatient facilities might have to refund payments they received for chronic care management (CCM) services performed during 2015 and 2016 under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, federal officials said. The U.S. Departm...
What's New in Value-Based Care - 9/23/2022 8:59:25 PM

Once dubbed unicorns, value-based care (VBC) models that eschew fee-for-service payment in favor of rewarding quality over quantity have, in fact, materialized. And a pandemic that has laid bare health disparities has only catalyzed the shift....
Patient Care Protected: Medicaid Payment Increase - 7/23/2026 4:06:49 PM

Related content: 2023 Legislative Wrap-Up: TMA Secured Big Wins With a New Strategy TMA Priority: Help physicians grow their Medicaid panels and access to care with healthier payment rates. Physician-Led Results: Texas physicians have not seen...
Chronic Care Management’s Five Codes: Know Which to Use - 11/22/2019 10:06:52 PM

Q. If I provide more than 20 minutes of chronic care management (CCM) services to my Medicare patient, can I bill more than one unit or more than one line item of CPT 99490 in the service period to account for this time? A. CPT code...
The Waco Way: How This Addiction Medicine Specialist Targets Primary Care Challenges - 5/29/2024 2:29:34 AM

Zachary Sartor, MD, began practicing as an addiction medicine specialist after he saw an uptick in behavioral health disorders among his patients, a trend he found grew exponentially after the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have reports that show the ...
Majority of Nurse Practitioners Satisfied with Physician-Led Health Care - 2/25/2026 12:21:48 AM

A substantial majority of nurse practitioners and physician assistants are satisfied with the physician-led health care model, according to an American Medical Association survey, even as the national organization has identified scope as the primary ...
Keep AI in Health Care Physician-Centered, TMA Cautions Feds - 3/5/2026 4:54:40 PM

As the federal government looks to encourage more widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical care, the Texas Medical Association urges a physician-centered approach to the rapidly evolving technology, providing insights informed ...
AMA AI Center Puts Physicians at the Heart of Health Care Innovation - 11/7/2025 5:07:10 PM

The American Medical Association’s new, physician-led artificial and augmented intelligence resource hub aims to guide the technology’s safe, effective, and ethical use, as well as other innovative technologies in health care – with physicians in the...
Senate Committee Tackles Scope of Practice in Access-to-Care Hearing - 11/18/2024 9:40:33 PM

In a hearing packed with representatives from medicine, nursing, pharmacy, behavioral health, licensing boards, and academia, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee tackled Texas’ health care workforce shortages with the Texas Medical Associa...
Advanced Care Sees AI Innovation at UT Health San Antonio - 4/6/2026 5:00:39 PM

At the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, artificial intelligence (AI) is used to streamline administrative tasks and soon, advanced care. According to the American Medical Association’s 2026 Physician Survey on AI, over ...
Executive Order Requires Safe, Secure Use of AI in Health Care - 12/20/2024 10:49:16 PM

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Oct. 30 establishing new standards for the safe and secure use of artificial intelligence (AI) via federal oversight across different sectors, including health care. The order – which will re...
Sickle Cell Disease Care Targeted in State, Federal Efforts - 12/6/2023 4:34:46 PM

Physicians could see improvements in their ability to care for patients with sickle cell disease as moves by the state and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) aim to standardize and improve treatment for the disease and expand acce...
The Physicians Foundation Seeks Health Care Leaders for New, Free Training Program - 11/20/2024 6:19:32 PM

The Physicians Foundation and Brandeis University are seeking 25 physicians from across the country to join a one-year, hybrid training program, starting September 2025, designed to develop and sharpen the leadership skills necessary to influence sta...
AI Platform Created with Physician Input Supports Value-Based Care - 8/10/2026 5:36:09 PM

Augmented intelligence is helping physicians tackle administrative burden and supporting them in some clinical care – but one North Texas physician-owned group is also putting it to work in value-based care. Based in North Texas, Catalyst Health Gr...
Medicine Meets AI: Artificial Intelligence Has Potential in Patient Care - 12/20/2024 10:47:30 PM

Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technology isn’t a futuristic concept for League City family physician Priya Kalia, MD. In fact, as an assistant clinical professor of family medicine at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Dr. K...
Technology Access, Safeguards, and Care Coordination Target of New TMA Policies - 5/4/2026 3:19:01 PM

Aiming to cement physicians’ role as leaders in medical innovation while reducing their administrative burden, the Texas Medical Association’s House of Delegates adopted a host of health care technology policies at TexMed 2026. The house’s actions s...
Middle Ground: Medicare Offers Options Amid Shift to Value-Based Care - 3/5/2024 4:58:07 PM

When Sugar Land family physician Troy Fiesinger, MD, joined Village Medical, then Village Family Practice, in 2015, he was largely in the dark about value-based care. “I did not know what [that acronym] VBC meant,” he told Texas Medicine. Sin...
Safety in Statute: State Law Guides Violence Prevention in Health Care - 11/18/2024 8:50:47 PM

Two and a half years after a violent attack on Children’s Medical Group in Austin, pediatrician Tammy McConnell, DO, still can’t go down the side corridor of the office where the horrific shooting of her colleague Lindley Dodson, MD, took place. On ...
Data-Driven Interventions: TMA Zeroes in on Quality Opioid Care(1) - 7/21/2026 5:27:26 PM

Data that reflect a patient’s true risk of substance use disorder or overdose. Technology that alerts physicians of an overdose history. Immediate and affordable access to overdose-reversing medication. Resources that support early intervention. T...
Data-Driven Interventions: TMA Zeroes in on Quality Opioid Care - 4/1/2024 5:35:34 PM

Data that reflect a patient’s true risk of substance use disorder or overdose. Technology that alerts physicians of an overdose history. Immediate and affordable access to overdose-reversing medication. Resources that support early intervention. ...
C-ME 4 2020 Amendments to Policy 200.047 Clinical Training Resources for Texas Medical Students.et - 6/17/2020 3:11:04 PM
04.21.2025 House Bill 3219 Removing Clinical Involvement in Prescribing Poses Risks to Patient Safety, TMA Testifies - 4/22/2025 7:19:48 PM
Federal Changes Allow Payment for Direct Primary Care Via Health Savings Accounts - 9/29/2025 3:32:50 PM

Patients will soon be able to pay for direct primary care (DPC) arrangements with their health savings accounts (HSAs) – a change that some physicians say may lead to increased access to care for patients and less red tape for clinicians. ...
Patients Can Now Pay Some Direct Primary Care Expenses with Health Savings Account Funds - 7/24/2026 1:21:09 PM

Feb. 5, 2026 Patients who see physicians in direct primary care medical practices can now use their health savings account funds to pay their associated membership fees, because of new federal regulations that took effect in early 2026. One physicia...
Expanded Flexibility: Patients Can Now Pay for Direct Primary Care with HSAs – With Caveats - 3/12/2026 6:00:47 PM

Editor's note: The original version of this story was edited to correct veterans' HSAs eligibility requirements. Bridge City family physician Amy Townsend, MD, transitioned to direct primary care (DPC) five years ago, a switch she says allowed her t...
Prior Authorization Fuels Physician Burnout, Decreases Access to Care, AMA Survey Finds - 4/3/2025 3:03:36 PM

Burdensome prior authorization (PA) requirements continue to intensify physician burnout, increase health care costs, and limit patients’ access to care, according to recent findings in the American Medical Association’s annual pr...
On Target: Med Schools and Health-Related Facilities Play Unique Roles in Shaping Health Care Across Texas - 3/3/2026 8:17:45 PM

From shipping-container clinics to cutting-edge cancer research, Texas is taking new approaches to health care. Across the state, medical schools and other health-related teaching institutions are building communi...
Opening Doors: Texas’ Newest Medical Schools Founded to Improve Care for Underserved Patients - 10/3/2023 11:58:01 PM

In the past decade, medical schools have been popping up across Texas, and the most recent growth has been focused in the eastern part of the state. In 2020, the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston and the Sam ...
'Fighting Our Best': TMA Efforts Help Improve End-of-Life Care Bill - 11/11/2024 4:18:00 PM

Mark Casanova, MD, has a sign in his office reminding him of his team’s unconventional motto: “Stomp Out Suffering.” “A number of years ago, at the end of a team meeting, I just uttered the words as motivation,” the Dallas-based palliative care spec...
Covering Distances: Physicians, Lawmakers, Med Schools Look to Improve Rural Patient Access to Care - 6/10/2026 8:17:04 PM

“Clinical courage.” Coined in medical literature, that’s the term Adrian Billings, MD, uses to describe his work as a family physician in Alpine. He says that due to the size and remote nature of his West Texas hometown of 6,000 residents, h...
Charity Care Policy - 6/3/2016 8:04:25 PM

Charity Care Policy Charity Care��Initial:�7/1/07�Page � PAGE �1� of � NUMPAGES �2��Revised:�� Purpose: Sometimes this practice will deliver care to those who are financially indigent and unable to pay for the care and services provided,...
Definitions in Managed Care Contracts - 2/1/2022 11:46:12 PM

Contract Clause of the Month: Managed care contracts and regulations can be a jungle of legal language, and physicians who do not carefully pick their way through the various clauses can be in for a nasty surprise. In this monthly feature of Texas Me...
Humana Chronic Care Management - 4/28/2015 8:20:23 PM
Palliative_Care_event - 11/6/2018 4:09:42 PM
COVID-19_Critical_Care_Guideline - 4/7/2020 3:28:51 PM
Health_Care_Access_Letter - 9/1/2020 6:51:18 PM
Designing Health Care that Cares - 3/26/2026 11:16:04 PM
The Nondiscrimination Clause of Managed Care Contracts - 3/18/2022 4:08:08 PM

Contract Clause of the Month: Managed care contracts and regulations can be a jungle of legal language, and physicians who do not carefully pick their way through the various clauses can be in for a nasty surprise. In this monthly feature of Texas Me...