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Surprise! Congress Delays Medicare Cut

Health System Reform Resource Center

TMA's Campaign to Stop Medicare Meltdown

MEDICARE MELTDOWN - Action Center - Patient Flyer for Physician Offices Health Reform School - Physician Medicare fees Health Reform School - Small Group Practices Health Reform School Webinar	Electronic Health Records: The Full Story AMA Summary: Highlights of CMS Proposed Rule on Meaningful Use Medicare/Medicaid EHR Incentive Program 25 Meaningful Use Measures NPRM EHR Incentive Program by Specialty Article from AAFP on EHR Incentive TMA Implementation Guide

MEDICARE MELTDOWN

- Action Center
- Patient Flyer for Physician Offices
Health Reform School - Physician Medicare fees
Health Reform School - Small Group Practices
Health Reform School Webinar

Electronic Health Records:
The Full Story

AMA Summary:
Highlights of CMS Proposed Rule on Meaningful Use
Medicare/Medicaid EHR Incentive Program
25 Meaningful Use Measures
NPRM EHR Incentive Program by Specialty
Article from AAFP on EHR Incentive
TMA Implementation Guide

Medicare Fee Schedule Still Stings

Congress delayed for two months the 21.2-percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians that was supposed to take effect Jan. 1, but other elements of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2010 Physician Fee Schedule still affect your practice. More

Proposition 12 Produces Healthy Benefits
A Recap: Six Years After Its Passage

Physicians' liability insurance premiums have continued to drop since the passage of Proposition 12 and the state's landmark 2003 health care liability reforms. All major physician liability carriers in Texas have cut their rates since the passage of the reforms, most by double-digits. Texas physicians have seen their liability rates cut, on average, 27 percent. Roughly half of Texas doctors have seen their rates slashed a quarter or more. Cumulative liability cost savings since January 2004: $879 million. Texas has added new admitted, rate-regulated carriers, more risk retention groups, captives, surplus lines and other unregulated insurers. Meanwhile, lawsuit filings in most Texas counties have been cut in half since the passage of the 2003 reforms and access to health care has improved. More...