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Delivering Collaboration: Can Birthing Centers Help Ease Texas’ Maternal Deserts? - 05/05/2025

G. Sealy Massingill, MD, knows well the wildly unpredictable nature of birth. The consultant on TMA’s Committee on Reproductive, Women’s, and Perinatal Health has attended the deliveries of thousands of infants and wouldn’t dare to presume that any apparently healthy patient labors unencumbered by risk.

Texas Medicine Magazine - 05/05/2025

Texas Medicine Magazine

Texas Medicine Back Issues - 05/04/2025

Back Issues

TMA Practice Resources Educate Physicians on Practice Challenges - 05/04/2025

TMA’s robust practice resources help educate physicians on common billing issues, payer updates, and practice challenges.

Dedication to Dance Enables Arathi Shah, MD, to Have Elusive Equilibrium - 05/04/2025

As Arathi Shah, MD, was finishing medical school in western India, a second crucible in the guise of a graduation ceremony awaited her. It also entailed yearslong preparation, rigorous training, and time with friends cut short.  

Wastewater Testing Advances Improve Physician and Public Readiness for Outbreaks - 05/04/2025

Houston is home to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Wastewater Surveillance System of Excellence.

TMA Health Beat Broadens Its Audience to Advocate More Effectively for Physicians - 05/04/2025

Louise Bethea, MD, sometimes encounters resistance in persuading her patients with asthma to adhere to their daily medication regimen. It’s a problem she attributes, in part, to low health care literacy.

TMA Offers Insight into Common Physician Contracts - 05/02/2025

TMA offers tips, insight into common types of contracts physicians encounter across their careers.

How Two APMs Are Contributing to Cost-Conscious Health Care - 05/02/2025

The Medicare Shared Savings Program and ACO REACH program provide physicians with two viable payment models incentivizing better patient care outcomes.

Texas Delegates to AMA Make a Strong Push for Fixing What Ails Medicare - 05/02/2025

Texas Medical Association members made their voices heard at the American Medical Association’s three-day National Advocacy Conference (NAC), Feb. 10-12, 2025, calling for a long-term Medicare payment fix.

TMA’s Top Legislative Priorities: Enhance Medicaid Payments and Coverage - 04/17/2025

TMA will work to enhance Medicaid payments and coverage this legislative session

UPDATED: Closer to Home: TMA Reimagines its Event Strategy - 04/01/2025

TMA reimagines its event strategy to meet members where they are.

I Never Knew TMA: Had AI Experts on its HIT Committee - 03/31/2025

TMA’s HIT Committee stands among nine councils and 18 standing committees that channel physician expertise to influence policy and programs that support Texas patients and physicians and provide solutions to the challenges they encounter.

Touting Texas: David N. Henkes, MD, Championed the State’s Physicians in His 25 Years on the Delegation to the AMA - 03/10/2025

David N. Henkes, MD, recalls his first American Medical Association meeting in San Francisco as a new member of the Texas Delegation to the AMA. The November 2001 conference was, in a word, “overwhelming.”

Advancing Primary Care: Medicare Rolls Out New Payment Codes for Treating Chronic Conditions - 03/04/2025

Though the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced another acronym into the Medicare mix, some physicians express optimism this particular one could help practices stay viable.   For Greg Fuller,

Straight Shooter: Incoming TMA President Ray Callas, MD, Aims for Practice Protections, Membership Gains - 02/27/2025

Incoming Texas Medical Association President Ray Callas, MD, an anesthesiologist from Beaumont, cites as his top priorities preventing scope-of-practice creep, defending physician autonomy, and bolstering the TMA's membership.

Going Viral: Dr. Glaucomflecken’s Medical Comedy Spreads Physician Advocacy - 02/27/2025

Dr. Glaucomflecken’s medical comedy videos spread physician expertise and advocacy.

TMAA President-Elect Joi Smith Calls Medicine’s Volunteer Force to Action with a Dose of Positivity - 02/27/2025

TMA Alliance President-Elect Joi Smith calls medicine’s volunteer force to action with a dose of positivity.

Fire in His Belly: Outgoing TMA President G. Ray Callas, MD, Traverses Texas to Advocate for Medicine - 02/27/2025

When G. Ray Callas, MD, was first elected president of the Texas Medical Association, he was moved by the trust his fellow physicians put in him to speak on their behalf and advocate for them.

Talk to Patients About: Measles - 02/24/2025

Few Americans today remember when measles was deadly. But before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, the disease killed about 2.6 million globally each year. By 2016, vaccination programs cut that number to about 89,000.

Advancing Health Equity: Karen Batory’s 35-year TMA Career Shaped Public Health for the Association - 01/20/2025

Karen Batory’s extensive, 35-year career at TMA shaped public health for both the association and the state

Taking Steps Together: Walk with a Doc Texas Improves Health and Communities - 01/15/2025

Walk with a Doc Texas improves health and builds communities for patients and physicians alike.

Wellness Warriors: Physician-Led Wellness Initiatives Tackle Burnout - 01/14/2025

After years of sounding the alarm about physician burnout and demanding systemic changes, organized medicine – and the health care industry more broadly – is teeming with physician-led wellness initiatives on turbocharged trajectories.

Enhancing Awareness: Physicians Can Help Dispel Myths to Ease the Syphilis Epidemic - 01/08/2025

Physicians can help dispel myths to ease the syphilis epidemic in Texas.

I Never Knew TMA: Had Leadership Development Opportunities - 01/07/2025

TMA Leadership Development programming is designed to help build leadership skills, enhance your résumé, boost your career, and help you gain an understanding of how one can make a positive impact in your profession, your association, and your community.