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ROI - Proposal Template - 6/17/2015 3:11:34 PM
ROI- Duties Inventory Template - 6/17/2015 3:11:52 PM
TM2021 PowerPoint Template - 2/10/2021 2:14:49 PM
Template Invitation to Join Email - 6/29/2022 3:36:56 PM
Speaker PPT Template - 5/12/2016 7:59:29 PM

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2023 Non-Renewals Email Template - 1/11/2023 10:26:01 PM
2023 Non-Renewals Voicemail Template - 2/17/2023 10:52:24 PM
Phone Call Q&A Evaluation Template - 10/28/2024 10:07:05 PM

Phone Call Eval Patient Name: Call Date: Identifier / DOB: Call Start Time: Appt. Date: Call End Time: Appt. Time: Physician Name: Reason for the Call: Phone Call Notes Number of rings Answered call or rolled in queue? State...
employee-essential-business-certification-multistate-template - 4/4/2020 9:34:01 PM
essential-critical-infrastructure-notice-to-employees-multistate-template - 4/4/2020 9:34:29 PM
309441 Legi Update 2020 Flyer TEMPLATE_Staff - 11/9/2020 6:24:48 PM
Practice Operations Toolkit - 11/5/2024 11:43:22 PM

The process of evaluating the operational efficiency of a medical practice can be simultaneously complex, time-consuming, and eye-opening. This toolkit may be of assistance to you in assessing your medical practice operations. This toolk...
Use Medical Record Templates With Care - 9/24/2026 5:15:57 PM

Some medical offices opt to use templates in creating electronic medical records. While templates can be wonderful timesavers, do not use them without precaution. Here's why: The default setting on some templates is a positive finding. If you use ...
Get Practice Help with New Practice Services Toolkits - 5/2/2025 6:22:04 PM

On its expansive menu of practice services for physicians, the Texas Medical Association has recently added free toolkits, which provide guidance on everything from human resources to revenue and more. Physicians can now access important...
DSHS Updates Patient Education Resource for Prenatal Practitioners - 12/18/2024 4:23:04 PM

Physicians can now distribute to patients a comprehensive guide to new parenthood, recently revised and released by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Maternal and Child Health Section. Information for Parents of Newborns, availabl...
OSHA Issues Temporary COVID-19 Regs For Health Care Settings - 6/30/2021 8:19:47 PM

On June 21, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a temporary set of regulations – called an “emergency temporary standard” (ETS) – for health care facilities taking care of COVID-19 patients or suspected COVID-19 patie...
Here’s Everything You Need to Spread the Word About Flu Vaccines - 9/6/2023 9:22:54 PM

Today is Texas Influenza Awareness Day, which the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) designated to stress the importance of every Texan over 6 months old receiving a seasonal flu vaccine. But, of course, that message is important...
Teaching Portfolios - 2/28/2022 8:12:23 PM

Valuable Tools for Academic Physicians to Document Professional Accomplishments and Teaching Effectiveness Many institutions of higher learning require faculty members to maintain a teaching portfolio, and these documents often play a prominent role...
2025 Legislative Wrap-Up: TMA Helps Craft Balanced Noncompete Compromise - 9/2/2025 5:41:20 PM

What started out two sessions ago as an attempt to ban noncompete agreements altogether ended with a legislative solution the Texas Medical Association helped craft in support of its overarching efforts to promote physician autonomy and reconcile the...
All in Good Faith: No Surprises Act Requires Practices to Provide Good Faith Estimates of Charges - 12/4/2023 7:40:38 PM

As a large-practice physician, San Antonio orthopedic surgeon Sergio Viroslav, MD, is fortunate to have a team of practice managers to sift through regulations stemming from the No Surprises Act (NSA). But that doesn’t make them any less confusing....
TMA_HCMS Non-Renewal Phone Script(1) - 5/13/2016 3:42:01 PM

Renewal E-mails and Phone Calls Made Easy The drop date is March 1. HCMS Drop call efforts will occur in mid March. Retention Process Summary: If available send an e-mail Follow a week later with a phone call HCMS Renewal E-mail Temp...
Healthy Conclusions: TMA's COVID-19 Task Force Showed How to Respond to Public Health Emergencies - 7/10/2023 6:26:14 PM

Like other members of the Texas Medical Association’s COVID-19 Task Force, public health expert John Carlo, MD, remembers the early days of the pandemic as a blur of activity. “It’s interesting to try to relive all that even though it ...
Coming Unwound: Mass Disenrollments Hurt Patients and Physicians Alike - 7/23/2026 4:46:52 PM

Since April, San Juan pediatrician Roel Cantu, MD, and his practice manager have had to give their young patients and families constant reminders – not just to take their medicines and get their regular shots as one might expect. R...
TMA Scores Major Victories for Physicians, Patients - 6/2/2011 6:56:29 PM

It was a tough legislative session from the outset. With an enormous budget deficit and special interest groups from hospitals to midlevel practitioners to those who wanted to emasculate the Texas Medical Board (TMB) lining up to take on organized me...
Seeking Balance: TMA Opposes Feds' Implementation of the No Surprises Act - 4/9/2024 5:28:18 PM

When Congress passed the No Surprises Act in 2020, it was supposed to be a boon for patients: Take patients out of the middle of certain out-of-network billing disputes between insurers, physicians, and hospitals, and give them more transparency in t...
HIT Security Risk Assessment Questionnaire - 8/19/2013 10:11:40 PM

Security Risk Asssessment Questionnaire How to Complete the Forms HOW TO COMPLETE THE FORMS Introduction Completion of this tool will assist a practice in complying with Meaningful Use and the HIPAA Security Rule, but it is not a guarant...