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TMA Compliance Calendar 2011-2013 - Any physician in business for more than a few months knows how difficult it is to work on the business. Between keeping pace with caring for patients, insurance company demands, government regulations, and the lastest medical technology, there are never enough hours in the day. That's why the Texas Medical Association (TMA) developed the Calendar of Doom, a web-based regulatory compliance tool giving you and your staff a big-picture view of upcoming state and federal compliance timelines and key health policy issues that impact Texas physicians. See https://www.texmed.org/doom/

Comparison of the Romney Health Plan vs the ACAOct 2012
Physician legislators support Gov Perry's rejection of Medicaid expansion and insurance exchange July 2012
Implementation Timeline under H.R. 3590 2012-2016
Implementation Timeline under H.R. 3590 for Provisions that Affect Physician Practices Oct 2011
112th Congress Bill Tracking Aug 2011
Find It, Fix It, Keep It: Affordable Care Act (TMA) Aug 2011
Advocating for improvements to the Affordable Care Act (AMA) Aug 2011
A Roadmap for Physicians to Health Care Reform - The Physicians Foundation, May 2011 06/30/2011
TMA Comprehensive Agenda for Texas Lawmakers - 11/12/2010
TMA answers: What's really in the Health System Reform Bill? - TMA - 10/19/2010
The Importance of HHS Appropriately Defining and Standardizing Reporting of Medical Loss Ratios - TMA - 10/7/2010
Your New Health Care System Chart - prepared by Joint Economic Committee, Republican staff Congressman Kevin Brady
Senior House Republican Senator Sam Brownback - 9/8/2010
HCMS President William S. Gilmer, MD, speaks about Opportunities for Success - 9/1/10 The Harris County Physician Newsletter
Health Reform School - Physician Medicare Fees - 6/1/2010
Health Reform School - Small Group Practices - 6/1/2010
TMA's Health System Reform Executive Summary - 5/27/2010
TMA Summary of Health System Reform Bill and Amendments - 5/2010
Key Provisions of Comprehensive Health Care Reform Law - 3/30/2010
Kaiser Summary of New Health Reform Law - 3/26/2010
Health Reform Proposals Being Considered by the 111th Congress - 3/25/2010
Implementation Timeline Under HR3590 the Patient Protection Act - 3/23/2010
Op-Ed: Caring for Patients in a Time of Change - 3/25/2010
Health Bill is Bad Medicine for Texas Patients - 3/21/2010
Letter to Texas Congressional Delegation regarding House vote this weekend - 3/19/2010
Letter to Congress from Governor Rick Perry, Lt Governor David Dewhurst & House Speaker Joe Straus - 3/19/2010
Medicare Meltdown - 3/3/2010
The President's Proposal - 2/22/2010
Dr. Bill Gilmer, HCMS President, interview on Doctors' Health Care Reform 'Wish List' -- 1/20/2010
HCMS/TMA on Health System Reform - Harris County Physician Newsletter, President's Page 12/1/09
TMA Leaders Go to Washington - 1/15/2010
HSR AMA's HR3962 - HR3590 Comparison Chart - 1/11/2010
Kaiser House-Senate Bill Comparison - 1/11/2010
House and Senate Comparison of Key Proivsions in HSR bills 1-10 1/11/2010
TMA Reminds Congress What Texas Patients Want in HSR - 12/22/09
Medicare Fee Cuts Delayed until March - 12/21/09
Medicare is on Life Support, KHOU news 12/16/09
Summary of Key Provisions of House & Senate Legislation - prepared by Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP - 11/24/09
TMA Announces "Senate Health Plan Bad Medicine for Our Patients" - 11/21/09
John Cornyn letter to Texas Physicians - Reid Bill - 11/20/09
House Passes Medicare Fix Bill - 11/19/09
AMA Substitute Resolution 203: Health System Reform Legislation - 11/11/09
Unhappy Docs Push AMA to Drop Support for House Health Bill - 11/9/09
House passes health system reform legislation - 11/7/09
Republican Alternative to HR3962 - 11/3/09
Summary of Republican Alternative Health Care Plan - 11/3/09
Democrats introduce H.R. 3962: Affordable Health Care Act for America (1,990 pages) - 10/29/09
Detailed Summary of Affordable Health Care for American Act - 10/29/09
Health Insurance Reform Side-by-side comparison H.R. 3200 - 10/29/09
America's Affordable Health Choices Act Implementation Timeline - 10/29/09
Affordable Health Care for America Act Section-by-Section Analysis - 10/29/09
Immediate Investments on the Road to Reform - 10/29/09
Topline Changes from introduced Bill to Blended Bill - 10/29/09
Top 14 Provisions That Take Effect Immediately - 10/29/09
Top 10 Changes to Health Insurance Reform Bill - 10/29/09
HR 3961 Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act - 10/29/09
John Cornyn letter regarding vote on the SGR formula - 10/21/09
Congressional Budget Office analysis of Chairman's Mark - 10/7/09
Congressional Budget Office analysis of HR 3200
HCMS Medical Legislation Board Comparison of House and Senate HSR Proposals - 9/29/09
HCMS Medical Legislation Board Analysis of HR 3200
Governor Perry Letter to Committee on Finance - 9/23/09
Health Reform Senate Finance Committee Letter - 9/21/09
Preliminary Summary of Selected Items of Senate Finance Health Care Reform Bill - 9/17/09
Senate Finance Committee Releases HSR Proposal-America's Healthy Future Act of 2009 - 9/16/09
Survey Results from House Call Meetings across the state - 9/16/09
For Your Patients: Visit the Me & My Doctor Web site (www.meandmydoctor.com)
Facebook: Join the "Fix What's Wrong, Keep What's Good Facebook cause
AMA Defines Seven Health Reform Principles - 9/15/09
Lashing Out at the Capitol - 9/13/09
Democrats play down public health option - 9/13/09

Professional Liability - Lawyers' Call to Arms - 9/11/09
TMA Campaigns for Health Reform - 9/10/09
AMA Reaction to President Obama's address on Health System Reform - 9/9/09
Framework for Comprehensive Health Reform - 9/8/09
Insurance companies dealing with their own health care issues - 8/26/09
Our Vision for Health System Reform - 8/25/09
Tylerites Speak Out on Health Care at Public Forum - 8/21/09
Health Care Bill's effect on Houston - Channel 26 - 8/19/09
Houston House Call - Channel 26, 5 am broadcast - 8/18/09
Doctors soliciting Houstonians' views on healthcare reform - 8/17/09
Watch recorded full coverage of the live stream of Houston House Call Meeting - Houston patients and physicians
share their likes and dislikes about our current health care system, and offer suggestions about how to improve upon that
system. 8/17/09
House call for doctors on health care - Channel 13, 10 pm broadcast & video - 8/17/09
TMA News Advisory: Physicians to Make Houston House Call on Health System Reform - 8/14/09
Obama's Senior Moment (opinion): Why the elderly are right to worry when the government rations medical care - 8/14/09
Patients, doctors passionate but calm at health care forum - 8/13/09
AMA: A Look at the Facts on Health Reform - 8/13/09
Letter to the Houston Chronicle Editor - Primum non nocere - First, do no harm - 8/7/09
Side by Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals - 8/5/09
Take Your Health Care Concerns to the Top - 8/3/09
A look at health care plans in Congress - 8/2/09
Fact Check: Distortions rife in health care - 8/2/09
Healthcare reform looms large in Texas - 7/30/09
Physicians To Make Denton House Call on Health System Reform - 7/29/09
New AMA Ad Emphasizes Common Ground on Health Reform, Shares Vision to Fix Broken - 7/28/09
Get it right, get it done (opinion) - 7/28/09
Reducing avoidable hospital readmissions seen as way to cut Medicare costs. - 7/28/09
Washington Post says health reform should not expand patent exclusively for biologic drugs - 7/28/09
Drugmakers May Fund $100 Million Ad Campaign on Health Overhaul - 7/28/09
Emerging Senate healthcare deal omits employer mandate, public option - 7/28/09
Dr. Betsy McCaughey interview about impact of health reform on elderly.- 7/27/09
Meeting of the Minds: The future of Health Care - 7/26/09
Promises vs Reality - Fox News Video - 7/23/09
No Health Care Vote from Senate until fall - 7/22/09
Doctors Wage War Against Obama's Health Care Overhaul - 7/22/09
AMA Chief: Health Bill Still In Early Stages - 7/21/09
White House backs off August health reform deadline - 7/21/09
TMA balks at backing Obama healthcare plan, despite AMA endorsement - 7/20/09
Will Obama's New Health Care Plan Work - 7-17-09
TMA "deeply troubled" by House Health System Reform Bill - 7/17/09
AMA Views on House Health Reform Legislation - 7/16/09
CBO Says Health Bills Willi Increase Federal Costs - 7/16/09
HCMS President Lewis E. Foxhall, MD, speaks about "Health System Reform" - 7/15/09 issue of The Harris County
Physician Newsletter.
Feds strike at Medicare Fraud in Houston area - 7/12/09
House Democrats Delay Health Bill - 7/10/09
AMA President, Dr. James Rohack appears on ABC Primetime - 6/25/09
AMA Commends Bipartisan Effort to Reform Health System - 6/18/09
Healthcare reform has nation divided (with video - KTRK)- 6/24/09
Key Health Reform Actions Taken at the 2009 Annual Meeting of AMA House of Delegates - 6/18/09
AMA Framework for Health Reform - 6/18/09
AMA Principles for Health Reform - 6/18/09
TMA's Health System Reform Principles - Texas Medical Association - 06/17/09
Public Option Not Single-Payer, Obama Says - Texas Medical Association - 06/16/09
Obama addresses Physicians at AMA Mtg - Transcript of President Obama's remarks - 6/15/09
Malpractice Issue So Far a Non-Starter on Hill - CQ Politics - 06/15/09
Doctors’ Group Opposes Public Insurance Plan - The New York Times - 06/10/09
Sweeping Health Plan is Drafted by Kennedy - The New York Times - 6/6/09
Kennedy bill would make employers provide care - My Way News - 6/6/09
Early Draft of Health Care Overhaul Would Give Government a Greater Role - CQ Politics - 06/05/09
The Cost Conundrum - The New Yorker - 6/1/09
AMA: Financing Comprehensive Health Care: Proposed Health Systems Savings- 5/18/09
- Summary of Major Provisions
- Comments of the AMA
AMA: Expanding Health Coverage: Proposals to Provide Affordable Coverage to All Americans - 5/11/09
- Summary of Major Provisions
- Comments of the AMA
AMA: Transforming the Health Care Delivery System: Proposals to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Health Care Costs- 4/29/09
- Summary of Major Provisions
- Comments of the AMA

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