Volume 63 Issue 19 – May 11, 2012
Featured Stories
NCMS and NCAPA Petition Medicaid’s PA Enrollment Requirements
On May 8, the North Carolina Medical Society and the North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants submitted a rulemaking petition to the Department of Health and Human Services regarding mandatory Medicaid enrollment for physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
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On May 8, the North Carolina Medical Society and the North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants submitted a rulemaking petition to the Department of Health and Human Services regarding mandatory Medicaid enrollment for physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
The NCMS Legislative Cabinet recently met to discuss the current political landscape and issues facing physicians and physician assistants during the legislative session set to begin next week.
We are pleased to announce that, through the generous support of members like you, your NCMS PAC was able to invest in 72 candidates for office this year.
Governor Bev Perdue released her budget adjustments yesterday for consideration by the NC General Assembly. The $20.9 billion budget includes a three quarters cent sales tax increase, restoration of education funds cut during the last year, salary increases for some state employees and a continuation of the many smaller cuts in Medicaid. There do not [...]
Are you looking to learn more about physician and patient advocacy? Do you have an issue that you would like to address with your legislators? Sign up today for White Coat Wednesdays, an NCMS program that gives its members the opportunity to advocate for their profession by speaking directly with legislators about current medical practice [...]
Stage 2 Meaningful Use Proposed Rule Comment Letter
In last week’s Bulletin, the NCMS announced that, along with other professional medical associations, the Society will be submitting a comment letter pertaining to the State 2 Meaningful Use proposed rule. The proposed rule outlines the requirements for the next stage of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health [...]
Duke University, Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and the Lincoln Community Health Center in conjunction with the National Health Care for the Homeless Council recently received the DHHS “Innovation Challenge Grant,” which will provide innovative health care to patients in underserved areas. According to DHHS, 26 projects granted throughout the United States will save $254 [...]
Due to a high volume of questions coming in through the Member Resource Center, the NCMS features a Frequently-Asked-Question (FAQ) for its members each week to share information about current medical and health care issues that their colleagues are having.
Q: Is it appropriate for physicians to recommend that their patients return his/her unused controlled [...]
Physicians practicing in the Triangle area are invited to attend a presentation sponsored by the NCMS and Durham-Orange County Medical Society (DOCMS) regarding North Carolina Physicians’ Retirement Strategy (NCPRS) on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm at University Club, 3100 Tower Blvd., Durham. Free retirement analysis and case design are available at [...]
This week, NCMS Executive Vice President, CEO Robert Seligson announced that Emily Deese has joined the NCMS as Director of Member Services. Emily’s career has previously focused on pharmaceutical sales with more than 19 years of experience at Sanofi-Aventis, where she expanded sales and marketing of prescription urology, psychiatry, and cardiovascular drugs. During her tenure [...]
Last week the NCMS and the Physicians Advocacy Institute, Inc. (PAI), released a documentary that details the inaccuracies of a medical audit conducted by CMS. Both the NCMS and PAI distributed the documentary to various publics through several different channels, including social media. According to TweetReach, the documentary has reached thousands of tweeters. Here are [...]
Early registration for the 2012 Sports Medicine Symposium, an event sponsored by the NCMS Sports Medicine Committee and the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians (NCAFP), is now available through June 1. The symposium will be held Saturday-Sunday, July 7-8, 2012 at the Kingston Plantation Embassy Suites Hotel, Myrtle Beach, SC. Attendees can receive up [...]
NCMS members can win daily prizes by exploring the many ways athenahealth, a NCMS partner, can help physicians and physician assistants get more money and more control of their medical practice through the athenahealth Daily Win Game. There are five easy ways to gain Sweepstakes entries, which enters participants to win great prizes like a [...]
The North Carolina Center for Hospital Quality and Patient Safety (NC Quality Center), an affiliate of the North Carolina Hospital Association (NCHA), will be holding the “NC Surgical Safety Checklist Campaign Orientation” webinar on Thursday, May 17, 2012, 9:00 am – 10:30 am, to discuss the World Health Organizations (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist.
Participants will learn [...]
