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Physician Advocacy

  • 2015 Legislative Successes

    • Cut Red Tape: Saves your practice time and money
    • Health Plans must display directories and formularies on the Internet
    • No more dual controlled substance registrations; DEA only (September 2016)
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    TMA's Top Priorities

    1. Increase Medicaid primary care physician payments.
    2. Devise and enact a system for providing health care to low income Texans.
    3. Increase funding for graduate medical education.
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  • Strengthen your practice and create a climate of medical success across the state.

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  • What could a TMA membership mean for you, your practice, your profession, and your patients?

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  • Advocacy Articles

    Report Examines New Medicare Payment Systems

    Medicare
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    The new Medicare Watch List report from The Physicians Foundation examines the implications of the new Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and future payment models established after the elimination of the Sustainable Growth Rate formula.

    See the system structure

  • Meaningful Use? Or Meaningless Abuse

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    Despite the hard work of TMA and organized medicine, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services insists on moving ahead with Stage 3 of the meaningful use electronic health record (EHR) incentive program.

    Discover what’s meaningful

  • TMA Tells DOJ Aetna-Humana Merger is Bad

    Health Insurance
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    The Texas health insurance market would suffer from reduced competition and potentially higher prices if the federal government approves the pending merger between Humana, Inc. and competing health insurance company Aetna, Inc.

    See how this effects your practice

  • Report Examines New Medicare Payment Systems

    Medicare
    Alt Tag

    The new Medicare Watch List report from The Physicians Foundation examines the implications of the new Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and future payment models established after the elimination of the Sustainable Growth Rate formula.

    Look out for your patients

  • Get Involved

    • Write a Letter to your elected official
    • Participate in a Town Hall meeting
    • Learn more about TEXPAC

  • Ask the TMA Knowledge Center

    Got Membership questions, call the Knowledge Center

    (512) 555-5555

  • Special Report: Healthy Vision 2020

    The fields of engagement — the Texas Legislature, U.S. Congress, courts, state and federal bureaucracies — are many. The issues are all-encompassing. But TMA’s approach is clear in this second edition.