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MIPS Hardship Exemption Offered Again in 2023
for COVID
Physicians eligible to participate in Medicare's Merit-Based
Incentive Payment System (MIPS) may be spared a steep financial
penalty, continuing a trend seen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In
the meantime, the Texas Medical Association continues to advocate for
legislative improvements to the increasingly complex quality
payment program. Read more
Miles of Mentorship: Encouraging Medical Careers Early
in Students' Education
The Texas Department of State Health Services projects
that within the next decade, Texas will lack over 10,000 full-time
physicians. To counteract these trends, physicians, medical schools,
and medical students are partnering with their communities to expose
students to careers in medicine early in their education, especially in
rural areas. Read the Texas Medicine story
UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing Trained More
Texans in Opioid Overdose Prevention During COVID-19
A new study shows that virtual training by UT Health San
Antonio School of Nursing on opioid overdose prevention reached more
Texans during 16 months of COVID-19 than in-person training the same
period before then, and in all counties with prior reported opioid
deaths. In all, the online training on the use of naloxone to reverse
overdoses included nearly half of all Texas counties, including some
areas where no deaths had been recorded. Read more
FDA Approves First-Ever RSV Vaccine
The FDA has approved the first-ever vaccine for Respiratory
Syncytial Virus (RSV), the agency announced on Wednesday. Marketed
under the trade name of Arexvy, the
adjuvanted RSV prefusion F protein-based vaccine is specifically
indicated for preventing lower respiratory tract infections in adults
60 and over. Continue reading
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