AMA State Advocacy and the Urgency of the Moment in Medicine

Reefer Madness

CA Leads on Vaccines

Measles Outbreak & the Anti-Vaxxer Movement: Holding the Line on Vaccinations

Health Policy & Advocacy Rotation and SAID-OH

Idaho Medicaid Expansion Litigation

Healthy Living Initiative

General Session Agenda

“The Physicians Foundation – An Update for States”
Russell Libby, MD, MBA Board Member

“Using Blockchain Technology to Develop a Smart Pre-Authorization Process”
Mark B. Thompson, MHSA, Executive Director, Medical Society of Delaware
Vince Albanese, CEO, Medscient

General Session Agenda

Physicians Research Institute
Gene Ransom III, JD, Executive Vice President, MedChi – The Maryland State Medical Society

“The Physicians Foundation – An Update for States”
Gary J. Price, MD, MBA Board Member

“Physician Health, Well-Being and PHP’s: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities”
P. Bradley Hall, MD, DABAM
President, Federation of State Physician Health Programs
President, West Virginia Society of Addiction Medicine
Executive Medical Director, West Virginia Medical Professionals Health Program

“Central Line – Colorado Medical Society’s Online Policy Forum”
Robert Yakely, MD, President-elect, Colorado Medical Society read more

General Session Agenda

“The Physicians Foundation – Report to OSMAP”
Gary Price, MD, Board Member

“MACRA From the Trenches”
Gary Floyd, MD, Texas Medical Association (TMA)
Louis J. Goodman, PhD, EVP, TMA

“Tennessee’s Effort at Medicaid Expansion”
B.W. Ruffner, MD, Tennessee Medical Association

“MOC Update”
Charles Cutler, MD, MACP – President, Pennsylvania Medical Society

General Session Agenda

“The Physicians Foundation – Report to OSMAP”
Gary Price, MD, Board Member

“An Update on the Impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – What’s Happening in the States?”

• “An Analysis of Insurer Performance Selling Exchange Plans and the Future of the ACA”
  – Brian Blase, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University
• “Covered California” – California’s Exchange