This is your chance to let key legislators and regulators know that the physicians of Suffolk County are concerned about protecting their needs during the 2010 state budget negotiations, the urgent need for liability reform, fair and equitable reimbursement and a physician’s ability to collectively negotiate with health insurance carriers. If Albany does not act, patient access to quality medical care will be severely limited, and even more physicians will be leaving the state.

The Suffolk County Medical Society has pledged to work with all hospital medical staffs in an effort to coordinate bus transportation. However, we need to know the level of physician interest in order to plan the logistics of pickup locations and additional support supplies.CLICK HERE for additional information and registration form.

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PLEASE NOTE:

The HIV CME Dinner scheduled for Wednesday, February 10, 2010 has been postponed due to the expected inclement weather being forecasted. We apologize for any inconvience this may cause. The reschedule date will be announced at a later time.

American Medical News

• 02/08/2010 05:00 AM
Obama budget freezes physicians' Medicare pay for 10 years
If Congress follows the White House proposal, $371 billion would go toward reversing planned annual cuts but would not increase Medicare rates.

• 02/08/2010 05:00 AM
"Speed dating" matches physicians, patients
A Texas hospital uses the matchmaking model as an informal way for both parties to check out compatibility before entering a doctor-patient relationship.

• 02/08/2010 05:00 AM
Obama targets federal deficit
The president wants a commission to address the national debt, projected to double by 2020, with Medicare and Medicaid consuming about a quarter of spending.

• 02/08/2010 05:00 AM
Another Medicare pay patch on the horizon?
Enactment of a debt limit bill would allow for a five-year Medicare rate freeze without a requirement to find offsets.

• 02/08/2010 05:00 AM
Calif. limits how long HMO patients wait for appointments
Primary care doctors in the state will have to see patients within 10 days. Physician organizations say some requirements in the new regulation are troublesome.

• 02/08/2010 05:00 AM
Space invader: Meteorite hits Virginia doctors' office
The exam room where the space rock landed has become the most requested room among patients, who joke about wearing hard hats to appointments.