KEYNOTE SPEAKERS SELECTED FOR TEXMED 2017
TexMed 2017 will bring top medical talent to Houston, starting with the doctors in attendance and including both keynote speakers: Kevin Pho, MD, of
KevinMD.com, and Pete Blair, PhD, executive director of ALERRT. Dr. Pho is the founder of the wildly popular blog KevinMD
.com. He is a practicing, board-certified internist and a social media leader in health care since 2004. Dr. Pho’s presentation on Friday, May 5, “Connect and Be Heard,” will take you through his decade-long social media journey and explain how social media can make a profound difference in health care. Dr. Blair will deliver the closing keynote presentation on
Saturday, May 6. A professor of criminal justice at Texas State University and the executive director of the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center, Dr. Blair researches and delivers nationwide training on active shooter events. By developing dynamic scenarios for first responders, the ALERRT program builds a comprehensive response team of police, fire, and Emergency Medical Services personnel to establish preparedness on local, regional, and state levels. To help conference attendees discover the newest best
practices and the latest research in the field, TMA has opened a call for poster abstracts. A total of three submission categories are available, including Quality Research, Quality Improvements, and Clinical — with a focus this year on Disaster Medicine and Emergency Preparedness and Enhanced Perioperative Recovery. For complete details, visit
www.texmed.org/QualityPosters. TexMed 2017 will renew your passion for medicine. To register, visit
www.texmed.org/TexMed.
or other) commits data collection and/or data submission errors that result in poor quality performance scores or failed reporting, especially when the issue is out of the physi- cian’s control. TMA strongly urges Congress and CMS to create physi- cian protections for these instances.
• No quality or cost measure should be used unless it can be properly at- tributed and risk-adjusted, and all measures must be developed and/ or vetted in collaboration with the medical profession and relevant stakeholders, not just CMS. In the final rule, there is no improvement to risk adjustment. No financial in- centives of any kind should be based on measures that are not properly attributed and risk-adjusted. Phy- sicians should not be penalized for factors not in their control. Volume minimums on all measures should be set high enough to avoid the sta- tistical volatility of small numbers. Additionally, all measures must be adequately vetted with input from the medical profession and relevant stakeholders, and must be devel- oped and maintained by appropri- ate professional organizations that periodically review and update these measures with evidence- based information in a process open to the medical profession.
• Remove the requirement for all-pay- er data. Although the law is permis- sive on this subject, it does not re- quire the use of all-payer data. CMS has finalized the requirement for all-payer data for three of six re- porting methods. In 2017, physi- cians reporting through registries, qualified clinical data registries, and electronic health record systems must report all-payer data, whereas physicians who report via claims, web interface, or patient experience survey/CAHPS need report only on Medicare Part B patients. This would result in an inequitable as- sessment of quality performance among physicians and practices. Medicare bonus payments and pay-
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