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Denise Waugh, MD, Temple; Danielle Burkett, DO, Fort Worth; and Debra Harvey, MD, Houston, are the winners of TMA’s Personalize Your Homepage drawing in June.
They each won a copy of TMA’s Man-
aging Your Medical Records. If you haven’t yet, be sure to visit
TMA Fall Conference coming in October
Join your friends and colleagues in Austin Oct. 18–19 for the many business, edu- cational, and social events scheduled at the 2013 Texas Medical Association Fall Conference at the AT&T Conference Center. In addition, you, your families, and your staff can get a flu shot or Tdap (tetanus,
diphtheria, and pertussis) vaccination at the conference. Vaccinations will be admin- istered from 7:30 am to 8:30 am on Saturday, Oct. 19. Flu shots will cost $27; FluMist, $40; and Tdap shots, $80. Be sure to reserve your vaccination when you register for TMA’s Fall Conference. Registration opened Aug. 1 at
www.texmed.org/fall/, and you need to book your hotel room by Sept. 26 to get the discounted $182 rate. The event is sponsored by TMA’s Committee on Infectious Diseases and TMA’s Be Wise — ImmunizeSM
program. Be Wise — Immunize is a joint initiative led by
TMA physicians and the TMA Alliance and funded by the TMA Foundation through generous grants from H-E-B and the TMF Health Quality Institute. Since the program began in 2004, more than 235,000 vaccinations have been given to Texas children, adolescents, and adults.
Be Wise — Immunize is a service mark of the Texas Medical Association. Plan an event for Influenza Awareness Day
One in five Texans get the flu each year. To create awareness about the health risks associated with the flu, the Texas Legislature has deemed Oct. 1 as Influenza Aware- ness Day. TMA’s Be Wise — Immunize is joining the effort by hosting flu clinics and educational events across the state on Oct. 1. We need your help. Plan a flu education event or shot clinic for your community. If you need help
planning your event, contact Tammy Wishard, TMA’s outreach coordinator, at tammy .
wishard@texmed.org or by telephone at (800) 880-1300, ext. 1470, or (512) 370- 1470.
www.texmed.org and check the “Keep Me Logged In” box next time you log in with your TMA username and password. Click on “Update Your Profile” to tell us your specific interests.
After that, anytime you visit us, you’ll be logged in to your personalized TMA homepage automatically to get the news and information you care about most. Why not make it your browser home- page, too, so you can follow the topics important to you whenever you go on- line? For questions or help with logging in, contact the TMA Knowledge Center at
knowledge@texmed.org or (800) 880- 7955.
PPACA employer mandate delayed
Physicians who have 50 or more em- ployees have another year to comply with the “employer mandate” of the Pa- tient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
The law requires employers with 50
or more employees to offer health insur- ance coverage or pay a penalty. The Obama administration an- nounced in a U.S. Treasury Department blog in July that it is delaying enforce-
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