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OFFICE SPACES FOR RENT
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Medical Office Space available in the Chandler, Mesa and Phoenix areas one to three days a week. Please call Sharon at (480) 421-5122.
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WE WANT TO OFFER A MEDICALLY-SUPERVISED WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM IN YOUR OFFICE
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· Receive rental income and consulting fees.
· Spend less time counseling patients.
· More convenient for your patients.
· Lower patient risk factors.
· Safe medically proven program.
· NO investment or staff needed.
Limited number of practices will be accepted.
For more information call 480-751-2205 or send an e-mail to info@ie-pm.com
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Sue Sisley, MD to present at U of A's College of Medicine - Phoenix Lecture Series: "Marijuana - Is it Medicine?"
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The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix is hosting a special presentation of its Science Cafe Lecture Series on October 11, 2011, 5:30- 6:30 pm.The lecture will feature a special presentation by MCMS Board Member Sue Sisley, MD, "Marijuana - Is it Medicine?"
The U of A College of Medicine Phoenix hosts a series of lectures in the morning called Start Smart and in the evening, Science Cafe.
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Institute for Healthcare Business Education presents: Rx for Business - A Seminar for Healthcare Professionals
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This seminar is a three hour business presentation designed to inform and educate healthcare professionals who are working in their own private practices or are employed providers.
Fundamental elements of business management will be discussed as well as current trends in healthcare and how they affect physician practices.
MCMS Members receive an exclusive discount - registration fee only $250.
Place: Doubletree Guest Suites - Phoenix
For more information and to register click here.
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Valley Fever Continuing Medical Education (CME) Courses
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November 5, 2011
University of ArizonaBIO5 Institute
The morning event is a basic course providing an overview of treatment of Valley Fever designed for Primary Care Providers from 8 am - noon. This course is free of charge and 3.25 CME credits are available.
The afternoon course includes more advanced topics geared for specialists (but all are welcome to attend either or both sessions) and is from 1 - 4:30 pm. The advanced topics course has a nominal $50 fee (waived for members of the VFAAC and students/physicians in training) and has 3.0 CME credits available.
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Health Plan Preauthorizations - A Necessary Evil to Lower Cost, or an Obstacle to Care?
By: Nathan Laufer, MD
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 | Nathan Laufer, MD
MCMS President |
The health insurance industry has labored over many years to perfect methods that obstruct sensible use of medical services. As their abilities improve we should expect worsening patient care, higher insurance prices, and a poorly served, frustrated population unless organized medicine and policy makers intervene. Current preauthorization policies use physician time and delay treatment. These policies were designed to save money. And they do, for the insurer, but they cost money for everyone else. Physicians say they are accustomed to spending days - sometimes more than a week - waiting for answers to their requests for an insurance company authorization, an AMA survey recently found (1). Of course this is not news to most private practice physicians who have to deal with this on a daily basis. Preauthorization requirements not only are a source of frustration for physicians, but they also create delays that interfere with patient care, according to thousands of physicians surveyed by the AMA. The AMA conducted an online survey of 2,400 physicians in May, 2010, to gauge the effect of preauthorization requirements. It released the findings Nov. 22, 2010. Read More... |
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New ASU-Mayo Clinic Initiative Helps Redefine Field of Medical Education
| | Mayo Clinic announced the expansion of Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn., to Arizona, creating a branch to be called Mayo Medical School - Arizona Campus.
The expansion signals Mayo's continued commitment to enhancing its national and international leadership in patient-centered academic excellence. It will provide Mayo with a platform to continue to redefine the field of medical education, training the medical professional work force of tomorrow in team-based, high-quality and affordable care for patients across a broad demographic.
The Mayo Medical School - Arizona Campus will include a key collaboration with Arizona State University. A major differentiating feature at this new branch of Mayo Medical School is that all students will complete a specialized master's degree in the Science of Health Care Delivery granted by ASU, concurrently with their medical degree from Mayo Medical School, believed to be the first medical school to offer such a program. Read More...
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HHS Announces $224 Million to Support Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs to Help Parents and Children
| | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on September 23, 2011, an award of $224 million to help at-risk families voluntarily receive home visits from nurses and social workers to improve maternal and child health, child development, school readiness, economic self-sufficiency, and child abuse prevention. As part of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program, these grants are funded by the Affordable Care Act and are awarded to state agencies that applied for the grants in 49 states across the country.
"Home visiting programs play a critical role in the nation's efforts to help children get off to a strong start. Parenting is a tough job, and helping parents succeed pays big dividends in a child's well-being and healthy development," said HHS Secretary Sebelius.
Both the formula and competitive grants awarded today will be used by state agencies to support home visiting programs that bring nurses, social workers, or other healthcare professionals to meet with at-risk families that agree to meet with them in their homes. They work with families to evaluate their circumstances, help parents gain the skills they need to succeed in promoting healthy development in their children, and connect families to the kinds of help that can make a real difference in a child's health, development, and ability to learn. Read More... |
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Costs of Employer Insurance Plans Surge in 2011
| | Employers' spending on health coverage for workers spiked abruptly this year, with the average cost of a family plan rising by 9 percent, triple the growth seen in 2010.
Family plan premiums hit $15,073 on average, while coverage for single employees grew 8 percent to $5,429, according to a survey released September 27 by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust. (KHN is an editorially-independent program of the foundation.)
Workers paid an average of $921 toward the premium of single coverage and $4,129 for family plans.
The results mark a sharp departure from 2010, when the same survey found average family premiums up only 3 percent.
Although many benefit analysts say the federal health law's requirements played only a small part in the rise, the results could provide political fodder for both supporters and opponents of the law. Read More... |
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Decision on Healthcare Law means Supreme Court Will Likely Determine Constitutionality Next Summer
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The constitutionality of the 2010 healthcare law could be determined by the Supreme Court this term, with a decision coming next summer in the thick of the 2012 presidential campaign.
The Justice Department said Monday evening that it had decided not to ask the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta to take up the case. A three-member panel of the court last month decided 2 to 1 that Congress overstepped its authority in passing the Affordable Care Act, which requires virtually all Americans to obtain health insurance. Read More...
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New CMS Program To Provide Incentive Pay to Primary Care Physicians |
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On Wednesday, CMS announced a new plan that will give extra Medicare payments to primary care physicians who provide better care coordination, The Hill's "Healthwatch" reports (Baker, "Healthwatch," The Hill, 9/28).
Program Details
The plan - known as the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative - is part of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, which was established by the federal health reform law to evaluate strategies to improve care and lower costs (Sanger-Katz, National Journal, 9/28).
Under the program, CMS officials will select five to seven healthcare markets in which the initiative will launch as a demonstration project (Walker, MedPage Today, 9/28). The initiative likely will involve about 75 practices in each market and include about 330,000 Medicare beneficiaries (Torres, "Capsules," Kaiser Health News, 9/28). Read More... |
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Nearly all U.S. Doctors are Now on Social Media
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| The number of physicians using sites such as Facebook and Twitter has grown so quickly that Gabriel Bosslet, MD, realized the moment his study on physician social media use appeared in June that it already was out of date.
The data, collected by Dr. Bosslet between February and May 2010 and posted more than a year later on the Journal of General Internal Medicine site, found that 41.6% of doctors use social media sites.
However, between April and May 2011, research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan found that 84% of doctors use social media for personal purposes. Then in August, nearly 90% of physicians reported that they used at least one social media site personally, according to a survey by the online physician learning collaborative QuantiaMD. Read More... |
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JDRF - Walk to Cure Diabetes
| | A Message from Drs. Marie Pavese and Teresa Pavese:
We as physicians in the Maricopa County Medical Society are joined with a common goal to treat illness and disease to better mankind. We can make a difference now in a big way. In unity there is strength.
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Dr. Richard Pavese
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Join us on the anniversary of our brother and colleague's death as we honor the memory of Dr. Richard Pavese by walking the annual 5K walk for the cure of diabetes, with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, to fund research to cure diabetes once again this year.
His niece Christina Abrams continues to head the JDRF walk, as captain of the team, JACKIE'S JOGGERS, in honor of her grandmother, the late Jackie Pavese, and her Uncle and godfather, the late Richard Pavese, MD on November 5, 2011 at Wet N Wild in Phoenix. Read More...
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