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Please join us for the
Bexar County Medical Society
Hot Topic General Membership Meeting
What is GPCI?
Why does Medicare categorize San Antonio as "the rest
of Texas"?
Come learn about the Geographic Practice Cost Index (GPCI)
and
how the GPCI calculations affect physician payments.
Presented by
TMA's Donna
Kinney, CPA, Director of Research and Data Analysis
Monday, Nov. 17
6:30 p.m. Mix and mingle
7 p.m. Program
Hors d'oeuvres -- Cash bar
Omni
San Antonio Hotel, 9821 Colonnade Blvd., San Antonio 78230
Click
here to RSVP
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SAVE
THE DATE
TMA Business Boot Camp: Take Charge
of Your Finances
8:30
a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Monday,
Nov. 3
BCMS
Conference
Room
6243
IH-10 West,
Suite
600
To register,
click here
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Tuesday, Nov. 4,
is Election Day
Your
vote
counts!
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RSVP now
for the 2014 Immunization Summit
Wednesday,
Nov. 5
Henry
B. Gonzalez Convention Center
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TRENDING TOPICS
BCMS physicians participate
in legislative receptions
By Mary E. Nava, MBA
Chief Governmental and Community Relations
Officer
Many thanks to all the BCMS
members who have attended a number of legislative receptions in
recent weeks.
A reception honoring Congressman Pete
Gallego (Texas District 23) was held Oct. 23 in the home of Gustavo
Medellin, MD.
Those
attending were (above, back row, from left) Jesse Moss Jr., MD;
Bacel Nseir, MD; David Valdez, MD; and David Friedman, MD; (front
row, from left) Michael Battista, MD; Gustavo Medellin, MD; Dianna
Burns-Banks, MD; Gallego; and Shamsa Saleem, MD.
Drs. Michael
Battista and Pamela Ray hosted a reception in their home Oct. 29 in
honor of State Sen. Donna Campbell, MD (District 25).
Pausing for a
photo with Campbell were (above, from left) Isabel Basaldu-Prado,
MD; Buddy Swift, DO; Campbell; Michael Battista, MD; Rodolfo
Molina, MD; Scott Farhart, MD; and Mary Wearden, MD. Also attending
but not in the photo were Alex Kenton, MD; Candace Campos-Kenton,
MD; and Mark Welborn, MD.
For local discussion on this and other advocacy
topics, consider joining the BCMS Legislative and Socioeconomics
Committee by contacting Mary Nava.
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Give your patients the help they need ... for FREE
The
YMCA of Greater San Antonio and the City of San Antonio Metropolitan
Health District have teamed up to fight diabetes from two fronts:
preventing diabetes before it starts and managing the symptoms after
diagnosis.
To view and print a free patient brochure, click here.
To order patient brochures and/or brochure holders for
your office,
click here and
open the Physician tab.
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About The Weekly Dose
The Weekly Dose is a service of
the Bexar County Medical Society.
Some of the suggestions conveyed may not be applicable
to your practice today, but the goal is to offer information over
time that returns value in excess
of the cost of your membership.
If you would like to recommend future topics to share
with your colleagues,
please submit them to the BCMS Executive Director at steve.fitzer@bcms.org.
All rights reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
Copyright © 2014 Bexar County Medical Society, San
Antonio, Texas.
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