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  1. Tomorrow at 8am on SuperTalk: Cardiologist / MSMA member Clay Hays MD to discuss new, 1st-of-its-kind heart attack prevention program in MS!
  2. @Doug_E_Davis625 thank you sir! Headed back to good ol Mississip now!
  3. AMA Interim Meeting about to adjourn... farewell, NOLA! Members: look for email update recapping final actions.
  4. House now debating resolution asking the AMA to secure support of the American people for passage of federal M'care Patient Empowerment Act.
  5. With patient safety as top priority, physicians would seek TRUE collaborative agreement instead of the leaked report.
  6. (cont) NOT agreed upon by MD groups. In fact, physician panel members were "surprised" when informed of the leaked info.
  7. AMA House calls on Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to publicly state physician-nurse "collaboration" document was a leaked draft... (more)
  8. Physicians now debating invasive procedures and fluoroscopy and the physician supervision of such procedures for sake of patient safety.
  9. Res 215 asks AMA to work w/ CMS to ensure fair, balanced, non-abusive RACs. If carried out well, this will benefit ALL physicians!
  10. Mississipp's other Resolution 215 (with goal of creating a fair Recovery Audit Contracting program for M'care/M'caid) is adopted by HOD ...
  11. Mississippi Resolution 216 (urging the AMA to stop the ICD-10 implementation) is adopted as amended!
  12. MSMA member Lee Voulters MD interviews with WLOX regarding SGR cuts and threats to access to care for Medicare patients wlox.com/category/19406…
  13. (cont.) regulations on the medical practice, and funding for graduate med education programs in order to recruit new docs to rural areas.
  14. (more) physicians including caring for Medicare patients in light of rising costs and deep program cuts, overcoming cumbersome govt (more)
  15. MSMA member / AMA Delegate Dan Edney MD just returned from his interview on SuperTalk Radio where he discussed the challenges facing (more)
  16. AMA HOD in session: Current debate: role of patient navigators. Docs want to ensure navigators do not usurp physician-patient relationship.
  17. American Osteopath Assn, et al to raise awareness regarding importance of expanded GME funding.
  18. MS's res.910 for gme funding passes, asks AMA to work with accreditation council for grad medical ed, assn of medical colleges... More
  19. Correction: ABMS not ABFM
  20. The adopted resolution puts the AMA in position to work with ABFM to remove the secure web site requirement.