|
|
SAVE THE DATE
CLICK HERE TO RSVP
|
|
BCMS members enjoy free
online classified ads
click
on Member Services, and in the left-hand column, choose:
|
Bexar County Psychiatric Society
6:30 p.m. April 28
Maggiano's at the Rim
Free information session on BCPS Group Health Plan
for 2016
For information, email
Walter W. Root, MD,
BCPS president, at
wwroot@sbcglobal.net
|
|
|
|
TRENDING TOPICS
Success at last!
U.S. Senate passes bill
to repeal Medicare's SGR, 98-2
President Obama signs bill into law
By Mary E. Nava, MBA
Chief Governmental and Community Relations
Officer
On April 14, the U.S. Senate
overwhelmingly passed HR 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP
Reauthorization Act, the bipartisan legislation which would
immediately repeal the flawed Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate
(SGR).
After 12 grueling years of
fighting to fix the SGR formula, physicians everywhere can now take
a rest. The legislation was sent to President Obama and on April
16, HR 2 was signed into law.
"We will have to study the
bill further to determine any ancillary effects on physicians, but
the loss of the SGR and the doc fix fight every year is certainly a
good thing," said BCMS President James Humphreys, MD.
The House passed the bill back on
March 26 with a resounding 392-37 margin.
To read more about the successful
passage of HR 2 and comments by TMA President Austin King, MD, click here.
For more information on this and
other legislative advocacy topics, consider joining the BCMS
Legislative and Socioeconomics Committee by contacting Mary Nava.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
IN
THE SPOTLIGHT
BCMS
welcomes a new silver-level
Circle
of Friends sponsor:
Randolph
Brooks Federal Credit Union
Silver-level
Circle of Friends sponsors contribute
$3,000
or more to BCMS annually.
Support
our sponsors;
our
sponsors support us!
Thank you to our BCMS Circle of Friends sponsors! This
information is sent on behalf of a valued sponsor at the silver level,
but it is not an endorsement.
Donations from Circle of Friends sponsors help keep down
the cost of dues and allow BCMS to continue to provide quality service
to its members.
The society continues its pledge to you and only will
involve itself in services and programs that benefit you, the member,
and your patients.
|
|
|
|
About The Weekly Dose
The Weekly Dose is a service of
the Bexar County Medical Society.
Some of the suggestions conveyed may not be applicable
to your practice today, but the goal is to offer information over
time that returns value in excess
of the cost of your membership.
If you would like to recommend future topics to share
with your colleagues,
please submit them to the BCMS Executive Director at steve.fitzer@bcms.org.
All rights reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
Copyright © 2015 Bexar County Medical Society, San
Antonio, Texas.
|
|
|
