MMA Email Newsletter 3/20/2008
MMA steps up efforts against suspect payment reform
There is growing momentum at the Capitol to pass a health care reform package that includes a complicated and controversial payment reform proposal that resembles capitation.
ACTION ALERT
STOP PAYMENT REFORM THAT SMELLS LIKE CAPITATION!
St. Paul Radiology makes it unanimous
Every one of St. Paul Radiology's 83 physicians living in Minnesota wrote their legislators and the Governor to protest the planned inappropriate use of the Health Care Access Fund.
Driver safety measures move forward
Driver safety bills supported by the MMA still have a chance of passing this session.
New financial planning benefit for MMA members
Thanks to a new preferred provider agreement by the MMA, Minnesota physicians have access to financial planning that is attuned to their needs, at a special member rate.
Coding and billing reimbursement seminar, May 5-6
The 3rd Annual Coding & Billing Reimbursement Seminar will be held May 5-6 at Grand Hinckley Casino in Hinckley.
State issues first citations for "smokers' theater"
Minnesota issued its first two citations state to a Babbitt bar owner and a customer for smoking indoors at a so-called "tavern theater" performance.
Kidney error focuses attention on "never events" effort
Removing the wrong kidney from a cancer patient at Methodist Hospital last week shone a media spotlight on the efforts of hospitals to keep "never events" from happening.
Survey: What's the condition of primary care today?
The Physicians’ Foundation for Health Systems Excellence is undertaking one of most ambitious physician surveys ever attempted.
Call for obesity speakers
The Medical Student Section needs physicians to speak on obesity at their Fall Education Day, Oct. 18 at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Details.
OTHER STORIES
Minnesota ranked #3 for restaurant poisoning
Anoka fast food worker may have TB
When physicians pitch products, do they cross a line?
Clarifying the tamper-resistant Rx pad rule
Minnesota raises charges allowable for copying records
Grassley bill would assist "tweener" hospitals
Empathy for patients starts to decline in med school
State awards first two EHR loans
Ventilator shortage worries pandemic flu planners
16-year-olds can now give blood
HHS offers states a new pandemic planning guide
"Less is more" in new approach to acute illness
Can your quality story fit on an easel?
U program tempers fear of flu with preparation
MMS needs obesity speakers for fall event
"Happy thoughts make healthier patients"
Spring Therapeutic Insights focuses on osteoporosis
HealthPartners joins health care reform partnership
Capitol Rotunda displays QuitPlan exhibit
Public Health Film Festival April 11-14
UPCOMING
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