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ROUNDS AMA house fights fat


TMA hires Three-Sixty Advisory Group as consultant


Harris County Medical Society Alliance awards scholarships


Five inadvertent HIPAA violations by physicians


Ask the TMA Knowledge Center


Honor a local reporter for medical journalism


contents 63 JOURNAL


Barriers to health care among Bell County residents with health insurance medical aid


Full text available at www.texmed .org/Aug13Journal/.


About the cover


More than 1,000 white coat- clad physicians and medical students, along with TMA Alliance members, turned out for First Tuesdays at the Capitol during the 2013 legislative session and helped TMA score victories for physicians and patients.


PHOTO BY JIM LINCOLN


16 “We got results”


TMA’s hard work for physicians and patients paid off in the 2013 legislative session with long-sought, even precedent-setting victories. Among the many successes are reduced red tape, transparent insurance markets, preservation of physicians’ scope of practice, and increased graduate medical education funding. BY AMY LYNN SORREL


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