Re: AMA news briefs
From: Gordon (obgyndoc@swbell.net)
Fri Feb 9 16:20:06 2001
"art fougner, md" wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >FYI
> >
> >Joe P.
> >
> >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
> >
> >3. Online compliance tutorial addresses hospital-based physicians
> >
> >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
> >
> >patients' rights legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of
> >
> >Representatives. Urging lawmakers to break through gridlock and pass the bills
> >
> >swiftly, AMA Board Chair D. Ted Lewers, MD, said, "This is Congress' first big
> >
> >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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> >* * * * * * * * * * * *
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> >2. AMA voices support for refundable tax credits to patients
> >
> >Individual ownership of health insurance gives patients more control of their
> >
> >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
> >
> >joint plan to cover the uninsured, which includes a focus on refundable tax
> >
> >credits to employers. The AMA, on the other hand, calls for tax credits to
> >
> >individuals. Support for refundable tax credits is just part of the AMA's plan
> >
> >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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> >* * * * * * * * * * * *
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> >3. Online compliance tutorial addresses hospital-based physicians
> >
> >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."
> >
> >The online module provides physicians with a basic understanding of two
> >
> >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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> >* * * * * * * * * * * *
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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."
> >
> >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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> >* * * * * * * * * * * *
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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
> >
> >encourage excellence in community service activities carried out by young
> >
> >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
> >
> >population. The AMA-YPS represents physicians under age 40 who are no longer
> >
> >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
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> A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.
Art,
FYI, some interesting pending legislation in Missouri. This has already been passed out of the House hearing committee
as "do pass" by a margin of 18-2 and is scheduled for #3 on the House agenda.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills01/bills01/hb328.htm
--
Gordon M. Goldman, M.D., FACOG
Private Practice, St. Louis, Mo.
