fessor and dean emeritus at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Cen- ter School of Nursing;
• Michael “Ted” Haynes, CPA, Sachse,
vice president of health care delivery, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas;
• Robyn M. Jacobson, Houston, chief executive officer of Entrust Inc. and
EnCore System Professionals Inc.;
• John C. Joe, MD, Houston chief medi- cal information officer at St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System;
• Ronald Luke, Austin, president of Re- search and Planning Consultants;
Newsmakers
Gov. Rick Perry appointed Harold Berenzweig, MD, of Fort Worth, to the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee. The committee will develop a managed health care plan for Texas prison inmates. Dr. Berenzweig is vice president of medi- cal and information management at Texas Health Harris Meth- odist Hospital.
Dallas dermatologist Stuart Brown, MD, received the Dermatol- ogy Foundation’s Practitioner of the Year Award at its annual meeting of membership in San Diego. The award recognizes dermatologists who are committed to the highest levels of clinical care.
Gov. Rick Perry named Vincent Di Maio, MD, of San Antonio, chair of the Texas Forensic Science Commission. The commis- sion oversees professional conduct in forensic laboratories and facilities in Texas. Dr. Di Maio is a board-certified anatomical, clinical, and forensic pathologist and a private forensic pathol- ogy consultant. He is also former chief medical examiner for Bexar County.
Austin Diagnostic Clinic family physician David Joseph, MD, received a 2011 Frist Humanitarian Award for his exemplary ser- vice to his patients and the health care community. The annual awards honor individuals for their outstanding humanitarian and volunteer activities.
C. Venkata S. Ram, MD, Dallas, was appointed chief executive officer and president of MediCiti Hospitals and MediCiti Institute of Medical Sciences, and dean and provost of MediCiti Medi- cal College in his home town of Hyderabad, India. Dr. Ram will remain as a consultant to Dallas Nephrology Associates and on the clinical faculty of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
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• Elena Marin, MD, Brownsville, chief executive officer of Su Clinica Fa- miliar and an associate professor of pediatrics at The University of Texas Health Science Center Lower Rio Grande Valley Area Health Education Center;
• Beverly Nuckols, MD, New Braunfels, a board-certified family physician;
• Thomas Quirk, Dallas, chief executive officer of United Healthcare for Texas and Oklahoma;
• Alan Stevens, Belton, director of Scott and White Healthcare’s Center for Ap- plied Health Research and a professor at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine at Temple; and
• Susan Strate, MD, Wichita Falls, a practicing physician and medical con- sultant, and medical director of sever- al clinical laboratories in North Texas. She is the former chair of the TMA Political Action Committee Board of Directors.
Did you get an e-prescribing penalty?
Some physicians have picked up a 1-per- cent Medicare penalty this year for not e-prescribing in 2011, even though they thought they did everything correctly. To prevent a 2012 penalty, physicians
should have successfully e-prescribed 10 times and reported G8553 on the claim form before June 30, 2011. Physicians also could have filed for an exemption with the Centers for Medicare & Medic- aid Services (CMS) before Nov. 7, 2011. Some physicians took the required ac-
tion but CMS penalized them anyway. If you are one of them, here are two pos- sible reasons:
• Some practice management software requires a value in the “Charges” col- umn of the claim form for each line item. If a value was not entered with
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