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Update Your Profile
| In preparation for the "fall referral rush" when the "snow birds" come to visit sunny Arizona and call MCMS looking for a physician, update your profile on the MCMS website to make sure your referral information is current.
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MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDING AVAILABLE FOR LEASE
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$12.00/SF. Just north of Downtown Phoenix, walking distance to Phoenix Light Rail.
Includes 7 plumbed and 7 non-plumbed office/exam rooms, kitchen, break room, and reception area. Suites ranging from 2,000 - 7,500 SF. Please call 602.319.1326
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LEASE SHARED MEDICAL SPACE- TEMPE-MESA, AZ
| | Tempe-Mesa Area Medical Office Suites for lease in beautiful garden office complex. 1200 or 1800 sq. ft. includes covered doctor parking. Excellent location with easy access to 101 to 60 freeways & close to Desert Samaritan & Tempe St. Luke's Hospitals.
Best rates in area. Call 602.625.6298.
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Patient Education Handouts
| The Maricopa County Medical Society is committed to helping consumers understand the changing healthcare landscape.
In 2014, our Round-up Magazine will include a patient handout that can be used by you to help patients understand various issues and to aid them in making more informed decisions.
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PHOENIX & GLENDALE OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE
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Available Immediately
Great medical office for lease in the Bethany Home and 16th Street area. Easy access on and off the 51 freeway.
Phoenix office has 8 furnished exam rooms and procedure room, a spacious lobby, covered parking and ample patient parking.
Glendale office has multiple furnished exams rooms in a great complex, located at the 101 & 51st Ave.
Lease one or both if you want to diversify. Great rates and perks!
For more information please respond via e-mail to cynthia@mccolon.com
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MEDICAL SPACE AVAILABLE
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1848 E Thomas Rd is freestanding former radiology buildings with over 12,000 SF available which can be subdivided. It is located directly across from Phoenix Children's Hospital and adjacent to Arizona Heart Hospital with immediate access from SR 51.
Contact Tracy Altemus, CCIM, 602.443.4022 or Autumn Storm 602.385.2854 at Ensemble Real Estate Solutions.
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Mountain Vista Medical Center Offering Discounted Breast Cancer Screening in May
| Mother's Day Special - Breast Cancer Screening available for $75 in May.
Most moms expect to receive flowers, chocolates or breakfast in bed for Mother's Day, but what if you could give her something really meaningful this year? What if you could treat her to a potentially life-saving mammogram at Mountain Vista Medical Center?
Call 1.877.924.9355 for more information or to make an appointment for a digital mammogram.
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HELP WANTED
| MD to work as a Medical Director for a methadone treatment center in Phoenix.
10 hours a week and absolutely no paperwork!
Primary function to evaluate and prescribe methadone treatment for clients.
$50k per year; 2 weeks paid vacation.
Contact Don Birchfield at 623.297.4665 or
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| President's Message: Patient Empowerment...It Starts With Us | |
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Miriam Anand, MD
President, MCMS
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My previous articles have dealt with many of the changes that we as physicians have seen in medicine, legislative and otherwise, that have impacted how we provide care to patients. Now more than ever, patients will need to play a greater role in their own healthcare, changing how patients traditionally approached medical care. In addition to the fact that many patients have to pay more for their healthcare with higher deductibles and co-pays, we physicians have less time to spend with them, meaning that we have to be able to make the most of that time. It is therefore important that we are spending that time getting an accurate history and educating the patient on diagnostic and treatment options and not trying to figure out what the "little white pill" that they take for their hypertension is. Patients must therefore be empowered and understand their role in helping us help them.
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| A Taste of Asia 2014 Honoring Dr. Anthony Yeung | | Join us on Saturday, May 10, 2014 to honor one of our own, Dr. Anthony Yeung, at the Asian Pacific Community in Action (APCA) annual fundraiser. This year, APCA will be honoring Dr. Yeung, former President of the Society and a true healthcare hero in our community. Dr. Yeung is a world-renowned spine surgeon who developed the YESS minimally invasive spinal diagnostic and surgical procedure. He is also a gracious philanthropist - recently donating $2.5M to a spine center at the University of New Mexico.
Video link to the event>>
About the event>>
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| Eligible Professionals Must Start Medicare EHR Participation in 2014 to Earn Incentives | |
If you are an eligible professional for the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program, 2014 is the last year you can start participation in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program in order to receive incentive payments. Eligible professionals who begin participation in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program after 2014 will not be able to earn an incentive payment for that year or any subsequent year of participation. If you choose to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program for the first time in 2014, you should begin your 90-day reporting period no later than July 1, 2014 and submit attestation by October 1, 2014 in order to avoid the payment adjustment in 2015.
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| University of Arizona Steele Center to Study Preventing Deadly Intestinal Disease in Premature Babies | |
A researcher at the University of Arizona Steele Children's Research Center plans to measure bile acid levels in premature babies to predict and prevent Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC), an intestinal disease that is fatal to nearly one in five infants who develop the most severe form.
Melissa Halpern, PhD, associate professor, said NEC is a potentially deadly inflammatory gastrointestinal disease that afflicts approximately 9,000 premature infants in the United States every year. The cause is unknown and no treatments for the disease exist.
Read more>>
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Are You On the Move? Share Your News!
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Are you moving on up to the East, West, North or South-side? Or moved in a different direction worth noting? Have you recently taken on a new role at your practice, clinic or hospital? Recognized for excellence in delivering care? Accepted a new position within our community? Have you completed a new training or certification? Recently retired? If so, we want to know! Please share with us your recent professional achievements, and we will share them with the rest of our members and readers and "connect our docs". Email your news to mcms@mcmsonline.com. |
Coming Soon to Your Mailbox - May Round-up!
| |  Public Health: You've been taught that it is crucial to educate patients on how to handle chronic conditions, but the pace of clinical practice makes that difficult to achieve in a meaningful way. The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program is one tool you can use with your patients. Page 18.
Patient Empowerment: Family medicine physician, Dr. Kimberly Shipman, builds her practice on a foundation of patient education and empowerment. Page 27.
Special Feature - A Tribute to a Healthcare Pioneer: Wallace A. Reed, MD: Compassionate, Generous. Dedicated. Loved. Beloved. To honor Dr. Reed's legacy, Round-up has re-produced his obituary and compiled the thoughts of his colleagues and friends. Page 14.
Honor Roll Update: Valley Fever is one of the three targeted public health issues by the MCMS Honor Roll Program. That effort received an infusion of new information April 5th of this year as the result of a day-long conference devoted entirely to Valley Fever. Read Dr. John N. Galgiani's summary. Page 20.
Patient Empowerment - Technology: The Internet, patient portals, e-tool apps and social media have transformed the patient-physician relationship. Many patients explore treatment options, risks, benefits and expected outcomes before their exam. The evidence is clear: people who are actively involved in their health and healthcare have better outcomes and lower costs. Page 30.
Patient Empowerment - A Consultant's Perspective: More than ever, brokers are seeing patients do their due diligence to ensure a hospital is a contracted in-network or an Rx is on the formulary. Are you open to this change in dynamic with your patients? Page 36.
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| Review Your 2013 PQRS Interim Claims Feedback Data | |
Do you want to check your progress towards meeting the 2013 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) reporting requirements? Now you can. The 2013 PQRS Interim Feedback Dashboard is available through the Physician and Other Health Care Professionals Quality Reporting Portal, with individuals Authorized Access to the CMS Computer Services (IACS) sign-in.
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Practice Spotlight - New Round-up Feature Series
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The Maricopa County Medical Society's Round-up is pleased to bring you a new feature series, "Practice Spotlight". Starting with the March 2014 issue and every month thereafter, we will  spotlight a physician or practice that has made changes to their care model for the benefit of the patient. If you would like to submit yourself or your practice for consideration, or would like to recommend another physician or practice group for our spotlight, please contact Jay Conyers at 602.251.2361 or jconyers@mcmsonline.com |
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| New Arizona Law Assures Insurance Navigators Can't Have Criminal Background | |
For those worried that standards were too low for navigators who help the uninsured find health coverage on the exchange,
Governor Jan Brewer signed the Navigator Bill into law.
The goal is to keep criminals from gaining access to personal information of those seeking health coverage under the Arizona Insurance Marketplace, created under the Affordable Care Act.
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| National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes | | Register Now
Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 1:30-3 pm The CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes was developed to improve dementia care through the use of individualized, comprehensive care approaches. |
| 2014 Dues Are Now Due | | |
As a dues-driven organization, each and every one of our members contributes to our operation. Without the dues we collect through membership, we are unable to effectively run our patient referral line, print and distribute our magazine, and organize community events.
Why should you renew? In 2014 we have put forth a lot of effort to re-vamp our magazine, Round-up, providing content that is more relevant to the landscape of medicine. Making the magazine into a more dynamic content resource is critical for us in interacting with our members. We have also engaged in more community activities, and are in the midst of building our social media footprint. Revamping our website to provide you with more tools and information, and a new look and feel, and actively engaging in the policy-making process at the Arizona Legislature are also value propositions we bring to our membership. Finally, for actively practicing members we are building analytics around our referral line to ensure that we are providing real value to our members, and communicating that value to you.
If you have overlooked your 2014 membership dues, it's easy to renew: - Renew online by clicking here
- Mail a check to Maricopa County Medical Society, 326 E. Coronado Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85004
- Make a payment over the phone by calling Candice Scheibel directly: 602.251.2363
In order to continue serving our membership throughout the year, on May 1st we will be forced to suspend the Round-up subscription and other membership perks for unpaid members.
We appreciate and value your contributions to the Society, and hope that you will consider continuing your membership with our organization. |
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