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Stories written by Sean Berlin

Physician-Led Results: Grassroots Advocacy Paid Off in Tangible Wins at the Capitol - 06/15/2022

Texas physicians made the most of an extraordinary, scaled-back session of the Texas Legislature in 2021. They helped pass laws to curb prior authorization hassles; keep physicians from incurring new practice costs; install liability protections for future pandemics like COVID-19; extend postpartum Medicaid coverage for new mothers; and keep graduate medical education (GME) fully funded. And so much more.

Leading in the Legislature: Physician Lawmakers Help Advance Medicine's Agenda - 08/02/2021

Physician lawmakers play a key role in advancing medicine's legislative agenda.

Cases Up, Deaths Down; What’s Going On With COVID-19 in Texas? - 06/17/2020

Texas Medicine Today reached out to several leading public health experts to try to make sense of the data and find out what the numbers are telling us about that current status of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas.

On Call at the Capitol: TMA's 2019 Legislative Agenda - 08/02/2019

When the 86th Texas Legislature convenes on Jan. 8, TMA will build on its major successes of 2017, renew some of the biggest battles that stalled two years ago, and tackle relatively new ones. Physicians will make their case to a somewhat new makeup of lawmakers as they pursue better Medicaid coverage for postpartum women, insurer accountability for narrow networks, more funding for community mental health, and many other aims.