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State of Texas Emergency Assistance Registry
The state of Texas offers Texans the option to register with the State of Texas Emergency Assistance Registry (STEAR) program. STEAR is a FREE registry that provides local emergency responders with additional information on those that need assistance during times of an emergency/disaster event. Flyers to post in your office are available in English and Spanish. The STEAR website allows you to register yourself and/or other family members, friends and patients in the State of Texas Emergency Assistance Registry.
Reminder: Revalidate Your Medicare and Medicaid Enrollment
Starting Nov. 1, physicians and non-physician practitioners (NPPs) who care for Medicare patients and don’t use the Medicare Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System (PECOS) must use a revised form to enroll or update their information. Read more
On the Mend: Maternal Care Wins Encourage Better Outcomes in Texas
In the ongoing fight to save Texas mothers from outsized rates of mortality and morbidity, medicine scored a major victory this year: the extension of Medicaid coverage for postpartum mothers to one year. Read the Texas Medicine story
ACT NOW: Contact Your U.S. Representative to Stop Another Medicare Payment Cut
Urge your U.S. representative to cosponsor the Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act, House Resolution 2474. HR 2474 is a bipartisan bill to fix your broken Medicare payment system and ensure you receive inflationary updates, like hospitals and other Medicare providers do. Physicians need to act now or physicians will AGAIN face a Medicare payment cut – 3.37% starting January 1, 2024. Click to contact your representative
CMS Finalizes 2024 Medicare Reimbursement Rates, Other Rules
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hiked Medicare payments for hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers by 3.1% for 2024. Physicians, however, will see their Medicare reimbursement fall by 3.4%. Both hospitals and doctors slammed the final rates as insufficient, with doctors calling on Congress to soften the cuts as legislators have in the past. Continue reading
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