The Weekly Dose           Bexar County Medical Society

Week of  March  22, 2015

Vol. 4, No.  28



 

Please join us

for groundbreaking at the new BCMS

office building

 

San Antonio 

Mayor Ivy Taylor

will read a proclamation

in honor of 

Doctors' Day 

 

10 a.m.

Monday, March 30

 

4334 N. Loop 1604 West

 

(Loop 1604 east-bound access road between Lockhill-Selma Road and N.W. Military Drive)

Please RSVP by clicking here

 

TRENDING TOPICS

 

Call to action:

Call your U.S. representative in Congress today and urge them to vote for HB 1470;

House vote expected this week

  

By Mary E. Nava, MBA

Chief Governmental and 

Community Relations Officer 


On March 19, TMA announced their endorsement of HR 1470, the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015.

 

With a 22.4 percent cut looming effective April 1, now is the time for physicians to call their U.S. House representatives in Congress and demand action to pass HR 1470.

 

To read the statement by TMA President Austin King, MD, click here.

 

To access contact information for your representatives in Congress, click here.

 

To access TMA's Grassroots Action Center, click here.

 

Additional TMA resources can be found here.

 

AMA call to action can be found here.

 

For local discussion on this and other legislative advocacy topics, consider joining the BCMS Legislative and Socioeconomics Committee by contacting Mary Nava.

 

SAVE THE DATE

 

BCMS General Membership Meeting

May 7, San Antonio Federal Credit Union 

corporate headquarters

at La Cantera

 

Details coming soon!

 

 

 

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

 

BCMS supports a Circle of Friends

sponsor at the gold level 

 

 

For information on residential mortgage loans,

click here and type Ken Herring in the comment section of the online mortgage application.

 

 

Circle of Friends web logo 

 

Gold-level Circle of Friends sponsors contribute $5,000

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 gold 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

 

BCMS supports a Circle of Friends

sponsor at the silver level 

   

        To learn more, click here.

 

Circle of Friends web logo 

 

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.

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