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Medical Society of New Jersey e-Newsletter
Special Edition
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Webinar: MSNJ's MPMS Presents: Common Modifier Q&A
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 from 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M.
Our speaker will go over common modifiers, how they are used, and answer questions. Please submit your questions to info@msnj.org with "Modifier Webinar" in the subject line and we will do our best to address them during the webinar.
This event is $25 for MSNJ members, $50 for PAHCOM & NJMGMA members, and $100 for non-members
Register
More information
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Prescribers' Clinical Support System for Opioid Therapies (PCSS-O) is a three year grant funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT).
The online modules are designed to increase your understanding of the current state of opioid-dependence treatment, increase your understanding of treatment issues for special populations, and lastly to increase your ability to assess and treat patients. Access the modules.
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Free Prescribers' Clinical Support System for Opioid (PCSS-O) Online Module on Assessing Safety, Efficacy & Misuse of Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain. This online module focuses on prescription opioid safety, efficacy and misuse, monitoring practices that clinicians can employ in their practices. Click here to view the module.
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Mercer and Middlesex County Medical Societies are hosting a FREE program on Estate Planning on Wednesday April 23, 2014 6:30 PM. More information. |
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Diversity & Equity in Mental Health: A Special Cooper Psychiatry Grand Rounds Program
April 26, 2014 from 8:00 A.M to 12:30 P.M. at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
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The MDSuccess Spring Event: Building the Patient Driven Practice
May 1, 2014 at 8:00 A.M. at the Wyndham, Mount Laurel, NJ. More information.
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ICD-10 Training Session
BCMS will be hosting an ICD-10 Training Session on May 8, 2014 at Biagio's Ristorante in Paramus, NJ at 6:00pm. The event will be sponsored by the Constantine Consulting Group of Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC and will be presented by Kathleen Skolnick and Beverlyjean Jenkin of Priority Chart Review, LLC. Seating is limited to only 50 physician members. To register, contact Anjanette Sumala at 201-489-3140 or email bcmsnj@verizon.net
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8th ANNUAL AMERICAN CONFERENCE
FOR THE TREATMENT OF HIV (ACTHIV)
May 8 - 10, 2014
Sheraton Downtown Hotel
Denver, Colorado
Registration Now Open!
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Symposium on Tick-Borne Diseases
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay, Cambridge, Maryland
Join the Lyme Disease Association of Eastern Shore Maryland for a one-day medical conference designed to provide the most current information about the research, diagnosis, treatment and management of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. More information.
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View April's Coding Tip of the Month for more information on the Use of O Codes.
If you would like your questions addressed in an upcoming edition of e-News or you have a coding question specific to your practice, please email your questions. We will work with a certified professional coder to help answer them.
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National Healthcare Decisions Day
April 16 was National Healthcare Decisions Day. This is an initiative to educate and empower the public and providers about the importance of advanced directives. View the revised POLST form. Read the press release.
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New Venue for the Advocacy Conference and House of Delegates Meeting: Crowne Plaza Princeton
REGISTER NOW!
Crowne Plaza Princeton
870 Scudders Mill Road, Plainsboro, NJ 08536
Friday, May 2, 2014 at 7:30am
View the Agenda
Register Online!
Directions
9am - General Sessions Include:
"Tackling the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic"
Steven J. Stack, M.D., Immediate Past Chair, American Medical Association
"Medical Liability Reform: What's On the Horizon for New Jersey Physicians?"
Marcus Rayner, President, New Jersey Civil Justice Institute
Panelists:
Assemblyman Herb Conaway, Jr., MD (D-Burlington), Majority Whip Senator Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth), Deputy Minority Conference Leader
"The State of the New Jersey Physician"
The Honorable Chris Christie, Governor, State of New Jersey
1:30pm
Select 1 of the following 2 workshops:
GRASSROOTS...PRICELESS.
An interactive workshop teaching the value of individual contact with your legislative representatives.
Assemblyman Joseph Cryan (D-Union), Former Assembly Majority Leader and Democratic State Committee Chairman;
Jeffrey A. Warsh, Partner, MBI-Gluckshaw, Former Republican Assemblyman and Executive Director of NJ Transit;
Paul N. Bontempo, President and Co-Founder, MBI-Gluckshaw, Democratic State Committeeman and Former Democratic National Committeeman
The Re-designed Practice: A Team Sport
This workshop will provide attendees with practical information about how to introduce team-based care within their practices. The session, which will include presentations by New Jersey practices that have integrated team-based approaches, will teach participants how to use effective tools that can help them develop a framework for practice re-design. These tools can help practices identify what things need to be changed and how to change them.
Andrew Miller, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Healthcare Quality Strategies, Inc.;
Carolyn Hoitela, MLS, Director, Library & Information Services, Healthcare Quality Strategies, Inc.;
Marc Mayer, DO, President and Medical Director, Avenel Iselin Medical Group;
Terry E. Shlimbaum, MD, Medical Director, Delaware Valley and Phillips-Barber Family Health Centers
3:30pm
Select 1 of the following 2 workshops:
Achieving High Value Healthcare In New Jersey: Payment Innovations, Collaboration and Transformation
For New Jersey and the nation, the need for high value care is urgent. Our medical professional societies, leading health systems, our largest private and public employers, government at all levels, the media, practicing physicians and our citizenry, all acknowledge that the financing of and delivery of healthcare services could be done with better outcomes and at lower costs. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is actively engaged with physicians, other healthcare professionals and healthcare administrators to achieve high value care in New Jersey. This workshop will highlight collaboration with practicing physicians, physician executives, other clinicians and non-clinician members of healthcare teams using payment innovations, data exchange, care coordination, workflow redesigns and other methods to achieve high value care.
Steven Peskin, MD, Senior Medical Director, Horizon Healthcare;
Joseph O'Hara, ACO Director, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey;
Glenn D. Pomerantz, MD, JD, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
How Bad Things Happen To Good Physicians (And How To Avoid Them)
Attendees will gain new risk management insights into how to avoid entanglements with and adverse actions by the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners. Attendees will also learn common tactics, complaint sources, and new strategies being used by the SBME against physicians. By attending this cutting-edge course, physicians and practice managers will learn how to manage these risks and adopt strategies to avoid future threats.
Michael J. Schoppmann, Esq. - Managing Partner, Kern Augustine Conroy & Schoppmann, P.C.
5pm
Attend the MedAC Reception Featuring The Honorable Vincent Prieto (D-Hudson), Speaker, New Jersey General Assembly
After a day of dynamic programming, MSNJ invites you to wind down at our Capitol Club Reception. The Capitol Club consists of physicians and supporters who contribute at high levels to MedAC, MSNJ's political action committee. Political contributions are a key part of physician advocacy and MedAC is the only statewide PAC that represents all physician interests. This event is open to Capital Club members only. Become a member:
www.msnj.org/donate
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Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 7pm
Inaugural Gala
honoring Paul J. Carniol, MD, FACS,
MSNJ's 222nd President
Parsippany Hilton
1 Hilton Court, Parsippany, NJ 07054 7pm - Cocktail Reception honoring Ruth J. Schulze, MD 8pm - Inaugural Dinner Dance Featuring Mentalist Asi Wind Purchase Gala Tickets! | More Information
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New Economic Impact Study Released---NJ Physicians Support Jobs
On April 16, the AMA released a new report which shows the economic impact that physicians have nationally: Physicians helped give our economy a big boost by contributing 9,968,342 jobs; $1.6 trillion in sales revenue; $775.5 billion in wages and benefits; and, $65.2 billion in state and local tax revenues across the nation.
Read New Jersey's results and the Economic Impact of Physicians in New Jersey. "This study looks beyond patient care and the clinical aspects of physician practices and focuses on the enormous economic benefits offered by New Jersey physicians in boosting the state's economy," said Larry Downs, CEO of the Medical Society of New Jersey. "Physicians remain a significant source of job creation and drivers of local economies." New Jersey physicians support almost 250,000 jobs in the Garden State. On average each New Jersey physician supports 10.5 jobs.
The study found that physicians had a greater national economic impact than each of the following industries: higher education, home health care, legal services, nursing and residential care. It is noteworthy that according to the federal government spending on physician services grew more slowly between 2009 and 2012 than at any other time in the last fifteen years and accounts for only 16% of all healthcare dollars spent in 2012. Yet, every dollar applied to physician services supports an additional $1.62 in other business activity.
View the full report and interactive map of the United States.
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Corporate Partners
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QualCare, Inc. - Platinum Level Partner
Contact: Matthew Rutkin, MEWA Sales & Proposal Coordinator
Phone: 888.670.8135, option 6
Email: mewasales@qualcareinc.com
Website
QualCare, Inc., administers the MSNJ Affiliated Physicians and Employers - MEWA Health Plan, a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) which provides members with access to healthcare coverage options that might otherwise be too costly. Through this program, physicians may buy self-insured health plans at the equivalent of large-group rates.
QualCare, Inc. is New Jersey's largest, provider-sponsored Managed Care Organization that offers self-funded PPO, HMO network, point of service (POS) network, and open access health plans; third party administration (TPA) services, provider network access, care management services, and a workers' compensation product. QualCare also provides ACO consultative services and infrastructure.
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Princeton Insurance - Gold Level Partner
Contact: Lois Hogya, CPCU, Vice President of Underwriting and Marketing/Communications Corporate Address: 746 Alexander Road, Princeton, NJ 08540-6305 Phone: 800.334.0588
Princeton Insurance exists to protect the New Jersey healthcare community and partner with them in their efforts to provide outstanding patient care. Measured either by numbers of policyholders or total premiums, Princeton is the leading healthcare malpractice insurer in New Jersey, with the longest continuous market presence of any company offering coverage in the Garden State.
Rated A++ (Superior) by independent rating agency A.M. Best, Princeton Insurance is part of the Medical Protective/Berkshire Hathaway corporate family. Medical Protective has been protecting healthcare providers since 1899 and is the nation's highest-rated healthcare malpractice carrier, according to both S&P and A.M. Best. MedPro provides unmatched strength, winning defense, and innovative solutions to physicians, dentists and other healthcare providers in all fifty states. To find out more about Princeton Insurance or to obtain a no-obligation premium indication, contact your independent insurance agent or visit our website.
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MSNJ Magazine Subscription Service
Subscription Services, Inc., does their very best to get you the lowest rates. As a member, you are eligible for the very lowest prices on magazine subscriptions as well as personalized hands-on customer service. Click "Shop for Magazines" to place new subscriptions, renewals, as well as gift order subscriptions. You can also inquire about titles you may be interested in. If you ever have a question regarding your order or your account, please call 1-800-603-5602, or use the contact page to communicate with a customer service
representative. And if you ever find a lower authorized price, they will match it!
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Member Resource Guide
Check out the current MSNJ Member Resource Guide! Inside, you will find a complete listing of partners by service/product category, along with contact information. Also, be sure to check out the individual Corporate Partner pages on our website as some offer additional discounts to members!
It is important to note that MSNJ does not endorse any vendor, service, or product. However, we encourage members to please consider our Corporate Partners first as the financial support received from these organizations is vital to our association. It is our hope that their investment in MSNJ will help keep your membership dues and programming affordable.
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Medical Society of New Jersey
2 Princess Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
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About the Medical Society of New Jersey:
Founded in 1766, the Medical Society of New Jersey (MSNJ) is the oldest professional society in the United States. MSNJ promotes the betterment of the public health and the science and the art of medicine, to enlighten public opinion in regard to the problems of medicine, and to safeguard the rights of the practitioners of medicine. The organization and its members are dedicated to a healthy New Jersey, working to ensure the sanctity of the physician-patient relationship. In representing all medical disciplines, MSNJ advocates for the rights of patients and physicians alike, for the delivery of the highest quality medical care. For more information visit our website or send us an e-mail.
"Your Partner in Practice... Your Voice in Trenton"
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