04/30/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/30/2021 14:08
Thune Joins Colleagues in Reintroducing Bipartisan Legislation to Expand Telehealth Access, Make Permanent Telehealth Flexibilities Available During COVID-19 Pandemic
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U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) this week joined Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawai i), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) in leading a bipartisan group of 50 senators to reintroduce the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The CONNECT for Health Act will expand coverage of telehealth services through Medicare, make permanent COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities, improve health outcomes, and make it easier for patients to safely connect with their doctors.
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The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) spent more than a half a million dollars on its two board of directors meetings in fiscal year 2018-2019.
For its winter meeting, the organization flew about 30 board members and ABEM staff some accompanied by family members to Maui and lodged them for about a week at the luxury Fairmont Kea Lani resort.
The total cost was $317,419, according to ABEM budget documents provided to
MedPage Today.
The board has held its winter meeting in Hawaii every year since at least 2003. It also holds summer meetings, usually on the U.S. mainland, at high-end resorts like the Ritz Carlton in Santa Barbara, California, the Coeur d Alene Resort in Idaho, and the Montage Resort in Park City, Utah.
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Top executives at medical boards frequently make more money than the average practicing physicians they regulate and sometimes it s a lot more.
MedPage Today looked at tax documents for ABMS and its 24 member boards to find executive compensation and compared those figures with data from the American Medical Group Association s latest physician salary survey.
The analysis found that for the 19 boards with complete data on both executive and physician pay, 12 of those executives made more than the median specialist salary.
Some of the widest gaps in compensation were seen for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), and the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP).
Dr. Jeff Bailet
Dr. Jeff Bailet, CEO of San Francisco-based Altais, got his start in government relations when he was the chief medical officer of a medical group in Seattle. After the practice announced it would move to a different health system, the city’s deputy mayor asked him to help address fears among the public and community clinics that the change would make it more difficult for the city’s neediest populations to access care. Those outreach efforts culminated in an agreement that secured healthcare access for those communities for 10 years.
“That was my sort of first taste of how powerful advocacy can be,” Bailet said. “I realized early on that the medical community can’t do it alone. It’s a team sport.”
Dr. Margolis has been on the leading edge of the managed care industry for more than 35 years. He is a much sought-after spokesperson because of his vast experience in integrated delivery systems and physician practice management.