If you missed
our 2016
TMA Fall Conference, you missed a display not only of the complex issues
confronting medicine today but also of the strength of the response TMA is
bringing.
- During a
panel on “Mind-Numbing MACRA,” Council on Socioeconomics Chair John Carlo,
MD, led a discussion of the challenges physicians face in complying with
the pending rules for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act.
Along with David Gans of the Medical Group Management Association;
Clifford Moy, MD, of TMF Health Quality Institute; and Rich Steinle of
Innovista Health Solutions, Dr. Carlo helped the audience understand all
of MACRA’s fast-moving pieces and the tools and resources TMA has to help.
- Turning to
the public health threat posed by the Zika virus, TMA President Don Read, MD, and Council on Science and Public
Health Chair David Lakey, MD, led a panel that explored the late-breaking
science on this disease. “Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and our
congressmen throw tomatoes at each other and fail to fund Zika,” Dr. Read
said. Texas Health Commissioner John Hellerstedt, MD, and Houston
obstetrician Catherine Eppes, MD, both added extensive expertise to the
discussion. Dr. Lakey estimated the cost to the state for a lifetime of
caring for a child born with microcephaly due to Zika at $2.5 million to
$10 million.
And at the early morning Dawn Duster session, attorney
Tara Kepler of Kepler Health Law laid out compliance craters — from prescribing
to HIPAA — and payment potholes related to practicing
telemedicine in Texas.
Last Updated On
September 28, 2016
Originally Published On
September 28, 2016