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WSSA Fall Scientific Meeting
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Seattle
Registration is now open. Click here for program information
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Special Program for Anesthesiology Residents
WSSA invites Residents to attend a special informational session immediately following the Fall Scientific Meeting, Saturday, September 11th at Bell Harbor International Conference Center. Member residents are welcome to attend both the morning scientific program, lunch, and the resident-only afternoon session, or just the morning or just the afternoon and lunch. Registration is complimentary for resident members; the non-member resident fee is $10 and includes 2010 membership in WSSA.
| 1:30 – 4:30pm |
Residents Only Practice Management Program: How Do We Get Paid For Anesthesia, Negotiation Workshop & Role Plays, and Picking a Horse to go the Course – Choosing the Right Practice for You.
Speakers: Jody Locke and Karin Bierstein – Anesthesia Business Consultants, LLC |
WSSA thanks Anesthesia Business Consultants for its sponsorship of this non-CME program
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New this fall: Juried poster session for residents. Prizes will be awarded in the categories of basic science or clinical research and case studies. Click here for more information. |
REPORT OF AMA INTERIM HOUSE OF DELEGATES
Rodney L. Trytko, MD, MBA
Washington Delegate
The AMA is committed to working with Congress, the Administration, and other stakeholders to achieve reasonable enactment of health system reforms. The AMA has achieved unprecedented access and influence in the current process, and is working tirelessly to ensure that all reform efforts are consistent with current AMA policy. The AMA is the only single voice we have in Washington DC today.
The AMA recently convened its interim meeting of the House of Delegates. The House of Delegates is the primary policy making entity in the AMA, and is composed of over 600 representatives for all state and specialty societies. The current AMA board chair is an anesthesiologist.
This year the primary focus was clearly on the health system reform efforts in Washington DC. Needless to say, this is a very complicated issue and a lot of misinformation has been propagated. Politicians and the press are doing what they do best. Some self serving and vocal physician groups are clearly not helping. Emotions were very high.
Many in the House of Delegates vigorously questioned the recent actions of the AMA leadership and the current policies of the AMA House of Delegates. I can assure everyone that everything was extensively discussed and everyone was heard. In the end, the House of Delegates overwhelmingly voted to support the current actions and positions of the AMA leadership.
In particular, the House of Delegates again renewed its support for its seven guiding principles for heath system reform legislation. In order to decide on support for any piece of legislation, the AMA will continue to utilize the following:
- Health insurance coverage for all Americans;
- Insurance market reforms that expand choice of affordable coverage and eliminate
denials for pre-existing conditions or due to arbitrary caps;
- Assurance that health care decisions will remain in the hands of patients and their physicians, not insurance companies or government officials;
- Investments and incentives for quality improvement and prevention and wellness initiatives;
- Repeal of the Medicare physician payment formula that triggers steep cuts and threaten seniors’ access to care;
- Implementation of medical liability reforms to reduce the cost of defensive medicine; and
- Streamline and standardize insurance claims processing requirements to eliminate unnecessary costs and administrative burdens; and be it further
For information on AMA efforts for health system reform, please either talk to me or go to:
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/health-system-reform/index.shtml
- WSSA announces the availability of Seafair Education and Research Grant Funds for 2010. Proposals must be received by October 30, 2009. Grants will be awarded January 2010.
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WSSA Members:
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- ASA President and President-Elect Reports to the August 2009 House of Delegates
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WSSA ASA Director Report
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Report of WSSA Legislative Efforts in D.C.
WSSA Representatives Aparna Ananth, MD; James Burkman, MD; Mark Flanery, MD; and Vita Pliskow, MD attended the ASA Legislative Conference in Washington, DC, May 5-6, 2009. Senator Patty Murray was the keynote speaker at the conference which drew more than 450 anesthesiologists from across the US. Read the report from the WSSA delegation. Read the ASA position papers on:
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by Rod Trytko, MD, MBA
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