Thank you for your continued support of the Maricopa County Medical Society. As the Society embarks on another year of serving you as the unified voice of medicine throughout the Valley, we hope that you will continue your membership with us.

 

As a physician member of the Society, you will continue to receive numerous discounts and services from local businesses through our Preferred Partner Program, and will continue to receive our monthly magazine, Round-up, as well as this e-newsletter. You will continue to benefit from our education and advocacy initiatives and will be invited to attend various events throughout the year.

 

Active physician members will also continue to receive referrals through the Society's patient referral service. Last year, the Society made nearly 10,000 referrals to member physicians, and has expanded our marketing efforts to better advertise the service throughout the community. We are also working on a  process to provide referral line participants with caller (potential patient) information through quarterly reporting. We will keep you "InforMED" on our progress. If we have your practice information on file, then you're already included in our referral network. (Be sure to update your demographic information if you have moved in the last year!)

 

Please take the time to renew your membership. You can do so by using the online portal (member ID# is required) or calling the MCMS membership office at 602-252-2015 and select option zero ("0").

We look forward to seeing you at one of the many events planned for 2016, and thank you again for your continued membership in the Society.

In the face of new regulations that will make program requirements under Stage 3 of the electronic health record (EHR) meaningful use program even less achievable and more disruptive, the AMA and 110 other medical associations sent letters to members of the Senate and the House, urging them to intervene.

The letters point out that "the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has continued to layer requirement on top of requirement, usually without any real understanding of the way health care is delivered at the exam room level." Read more at AMA Wire®.