AUSTIN – Eligible Texas women on Medicaid can go straight to their pharmacist to pick up mosquito repellent, Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Charles Smith announced today. Texas Medicaid has issued a standing order for mosquito...
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Recommendation to test patients with consistent symptoms for Cyclospora The Texas Department of State Health Services is encouraging healthcare providers to test patients for the parasite Cyclospora if they have diarrheal illness lasting more...
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The Florida Department of Health (FL DOH) has identified an area with local mosquito-borne Zika virus transmission (active Zika virus transmission) in Miami (http://www.cdc.gov/zika/intheus/floridaupdate.html). Based on the earliest time of...
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By Don Read, MD President, Texas Medical Association (This article first appeared in the KevinMD.com blog. Reprinted with permission.) I joined physicians nationwide last year in cheering when Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP...
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The Texas Medical Association and the Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have prepared the following information on Zika virus and pregnant patients. Serious birth defects including congenital microcephaly have been reported in...
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In a letter to acting Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Andy Slavitt, TMA outlines several steps CMS can take to improve the reporting of clinical quality measures (CQMs). For starters, CMS should sunset the CQM...
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The Texas Medical Association is “very concerned that many of the compliance, documentation, and reporting requirements that will be implemented in the future Medicare system are wasteful, costly, and do little or nothing to improve care...
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