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170.004D Medical Liability Reforms

170.004D

170.004Medical Liability Reforms: The Texas Medical Association agreed to work with state medical specialty societies to identify defensive medicine tests and procedures and to quantify their impact on medical care costs and access. Among a number of compelling legislative priorities, TMA voted to continue efforts to pursue effective liability reforms (Res. 28CC, I-92; deleted CL Rep. 2-A-03).

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October 07, 2016

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Texas Medicine 

The way the Texas Legislature conducts business during the 2021 session may look different due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the Texas Medical Association’s commitment to improving health care remains the same. Some of those goals are up against deep cuts to state agency budgets. At the same time, however, the pandemic has created opportunities for medicine to bend lawmakers’ ear on some of its longstanding goals, including advancing access to care, vaccines, health coverage, and telemedicine. Plus, physicians have proven ways to respond to patients’ COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. 

 

 

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