Go to Health Reform School and Earn CME
As part of its campaign to help Texas physicians survive and thrive in the new health care environment, TMA offers Health Reform School.
Sign Petition to Save Medicare
Doctors want to take care of Medicare patients. Congress is forcing doctors to limit the number of Medicare patients we see or to quit taking Medicare patients altogether. Sign the petition by clicking here.
Six Things to Know About Medicare ACOs
The health system reform law establishes a new breed of health care delivery system called accountable care organizations (ACOs). (Action, Sept. 1, 2010)
Texas Medicare Manifesto II
Every year, for almost a decade, organized medicine and Congress go through the same tedious motions. Physicians plead with Congress: “Fix the faulty funding formula Medicare uses to pay physicians: Make it fair.” The current payment system ensures that hospitals, nursing homes, pharmaceutical companies, Medicare HMOs, and many other Medicare providers receive an automatic cost-of-living increase. Meanwhile, doctors — the frontline people who take care of sick and injured Medicare patients — have to scramble to avoid dramatic pay cuts. Medicare patients, especially the elderly, struggle as more physicians who no longer can afford to take new Medicare patients leave the program. More...
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Health System Reform
- Health Reform Law Concerns Physicians (Action, Aug. 2, 2010)
- The Work Ahead: TMA, State Leaders Look to Shape Health System Reform in Texas (Texas Medicine, July 2010)
- The New Normal: Lengthy Bill Changes Health Care System (Texas Medicine, June 2010)
- What It Means: TMA Analyzes Pros and Cons of Health System Reform Law (Texas Medicine, May 2010)
- Summary - HR 3590: Health System Reform Bill
- TMA's Health System Reform Guiding Principles (March 2009)
- Health System Reform (Texas Medicine, June 2009)
- Texas Doctors: “Senate Health Plan Bad Medicine for Our Patients” (Nov. 21, 2009)
- Health Reform 'Health Calls': TMA Meetings Help Physicians, Patients Shape Debate (Texas Medicine, October 2009)
- Foundation Says HSR Balloons Health Cost (Action, Sept. 15, 2009)
- AMA Defines Seven Health Reform Principles (Action, Sept. 15, 2009)
- Take Your Health Care Concerns to the Top
- Americans on Health Care Reform: Top 10 Takeaways Key Findings from Gallup Surveys (July 31, 2009)
- Border Health Caucus Response to The New Yorker Article: "The Cost Conundrum" (July 6, 2009)
- TMA: Reform Must Provide Patient Access While Protecting Freedoms (June 17, 2009)
- Obama Touts Health Reform at AMA Meeting (June 16, 2009)
- President Obama Brings His Health System Reform Proposals to U.S. Physicians (June 15, 2009)
- TMA in Washington D.C. (March 6, 2009)
- Kaiser Health Reform Gateway
- Texas Stimulus Fund
Medicare
- Six Things to Know About Medicare ACOs (Action, Sept. 1, 2010)
- House Approves Medicare Fee Increase (Action, June 24, 2010)
- Save Medicare Petition Gains Momentum (Action, May 3, 2010)
- Congress Turns Its Back on Medicare Patients Again (April 15, 2010)
- Caring for Patients in a Time of Change (March 25, 2010)
- Medicare Fee Schedule Still Stings (Jan. 13, 2010)
- Medicare Fee Cuts Delayed
- CMS Moves Ahead With Medicare Fee Cut (Action, Nov. 16, 2009)
- Drugs Removed from Medicare’s Physician Payment Formula (July 2, 2009)
- Senate Fails to Act on Medicare
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February 17, 2017