Re: AMA news briefs
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Fri Feb 9 10:47:55 2001
all the fuss about the patients' bill of rights suggests the larger
issue - what about a providers' ( god how i hate that term) bill of
rights? the situation with California's power crisis is not all that
dissimilar to the potential crisis concerning doctors' reimbursement.
stay tuned.
again, just my opinion - i could be wrong.
art
At Fri, 9 Feb 2001, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote:
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>FYI
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>Joe P.
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>AMA E-MAIL NEWS BRIEFS, FEBRUARY 9, 2001
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>In this issue:
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>1. AMA tells Congress: Break the gridlock, pass patients' rights legislation
>now
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>2. AMA voices support for refundable tax credits to patients
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>3. Online compliance tutorial addresses hospital-based physicians
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>4. National Donor Day coming up this Saturday
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>5. Nominations sought for AMA-YPS Community Service Award
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>1. AMA tells Congress: Break the gridlock, pass patients' rights legislation
>now
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>The AMA this week announced its strong support for the compromise bipartisan
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>patients' rights legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of
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>Representatives. Urging lawmakers to break through gridlock and pass the bills
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>swiftly, AMA Board Chair D. Ted Lewers, MD, said, "This is Congress' first big
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>chance on the health care front to prove that they can deliver what voters
>have
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>been telling them they want for years." The legislation is a modified version
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>of a bill that overwhelmingly passed the House in 1999 with 275 votes after an
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>intense campaign by the AMA. Read the full story at
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>http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/article/1611-3832.html
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>2. AMA voices support for refundable tax credits to patients
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>Individual ownership of health insurance gives patients more control of their
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>health care decisions, AMA President Randolph D. Smoak Jr., MD, told the Los
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>Angeles Times in a recent letter. The letter was written in response to an
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>editorial about Families USA and Health Insurance Associations of America's
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>joint plan to cover the uninsured, which includes a focus on refundable tax
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>credits to employers. The AMA, on the other hand, calls for tax credits to
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>individuals. Support for refundable tax credits is just part of the AMA's plan
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>to increase the number of Americans with health insurance coverage. Read Dr.
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>Smoak's letter at http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/article/3289-3809.html
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>3. Online compliance tutorial addresses hospital-based physicians
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>The AMA members-only Compliance Interactive Tutorial System fraud and abuse
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>educational tool now is offering its sixth module, "Hospital-based
>Physicians."
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>The online module provides physicians with a basic understanding of two
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>compliance risk areas relating to hospital-based physicians: (1) proper
>billing
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>of services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries; and (2) anti-kickback
>concerns.
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>These two areas of risk may result in substantial penalties for both
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>hospital-based physicians and hospitals. Go to the tutorial at
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>http://www.ama-assn.org/members/cits/hpmod.htm
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>4. National Donor Day coming up this Saturday
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>The AMA and 15 public health organizations are joining the Saturn Corporation
>to
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>raise awareness of
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>National Donor Day, which will be held this Saturday, Feb. 10. The event aims
>to
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>alleviate the nation's "desperate need for increased organ and tissue
>donation."
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>On Donor Day, Saturn's 437 retailers will be holding blood drives and adding
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>people to the list of organ and tissue donors. More than 25,000 units of blood
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>were collected in the three previous national donor days. Learn more at
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>http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2231.html
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>5. Nominations sought for AMA-YPS Community Service Award
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>The AMA Young Physicians Section (AMA-YPS) invites you to submit nominations
>for
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>the 2001 AMA-YPS Community Service Award. The awards aim to recognize and
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>encourage excellence in community service activities carried out by young
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>physicians. The AMA-YPS Governing Council will select the award recipients
>based
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>on criteria including the physician's positive effect on a given community or
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>population. The AMA-YPS represents physicians under age 40 who are no longer
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>residents or fellows - or physicians of any age within their first five years
>of
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>professional practice. For more information, including nomination forms, go to
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>http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2390.html Nominations are due May 1.
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art fougner, md
A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.
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