Montana Medical Association

Advocacy Corner



	Proposed Medicaid RBRVS Proposed Ruling. Please submit your comment on how the proposed ruling may affect your practice to the Executive Office. For your review is information based on proposed rates for physician and allied health care providers. Contact your Congressional delegation to advocate now for sponsorship of The Montana Medicare Patient Empowerment Act (H.R. 1700/S.1042) that would allow patients to use their current Medicare coverage to help cover the cost of seeing a doctor who is not seeing new Medicare patients or who have stopped accepting Medicare altogether. Check out the 2011 Scorecard to see how your legislator voted on issues of importance to patients and physicians. Commissioner of Insurance Patient Centered Medical Homes Initiative in Montana Health Care Cost Database Advisory Council Montana Board of Pharmacy Prescription Drug Council/Registry and access to the Drug Registry here. Prescription Drug Registry rules were adopted with a small change from the proposed rule. Information on Additional Advocacy Efforts are Available by Clicking Here.

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	Proposed Medicaid RBRVS Proposed Ruling. Please submit your comment on how the proposed ruling may affect your practice to the Executive Office. For your review is information based on proposed rates for physician and allied health care providers. Action Needed: Medicaid Provider Rates and Reimbursement, New Member Benefit Launch and more. Click to read the latest MMA Rounds about important to you and your practice. Review five draft Local Coverage Determination policies from Noridian. Comments must be received by July 16. Nominate a physician or patient advocate by July 1. Click here for more information. 2012 Memberships are being accepted online. Click here to renew or become a new member. It is easy and secure! MMA Directory of Montana Physicians Order your 2012, discounted for MMA Members Check out the 2011 Scorecard to see how your legislator voted on issues of importance to patients and physicians.
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Montana Medical Association

2021 11th Avenue
Helena, Montana 59601

Phone: 406-443-4000
Fax: 406-443-4042
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Dates to Remember



	May 17, Cascade County Medical Society Gathering, Great Falls May 24, Montana Cancer Control Coalition Statewide Meeting, Helena June 9, UMIA Risk Management Workshop, Great Falls June 15, Medical Ethics: What Care? Who Decides? Who Pays?, Billings June 20-23, Montana Academy of Family Medicine, Red Lodge June 25, Champions for Quality Patient Driven Leadership, Great Falls June 27, Champions for Quality Patient Driven Leadership, Missoula MMA Webinars May 22, E/M and Surgery Coding May 24, CPT Procedure Coding II June 14, Operative Reports Coding June 19, Family Practice Coding June 26, Internal Medicine Coding June 28, Obstetrics Coding To register for any of the classes above or those held throughout the year; click here.