MMS Testimony Relative to MassHealth Section 1115 Demonstration Project Amendment and Extension Request

7/15/2016

ACO models with varying involvement by managed care organizations, a retention yet reduction … funds. Infrastructure funding to improve information technology, population health management … health is an important component of the optimum health management of MassHealth patients. In 2009 …

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Designation/Accreditation Statements

6/27/2016

Category 1 Credit™. For activities eligible for Risk Management Study You may use the following …:  This activity meets the criteria of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for risk management …'s for risk management study. …

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Accreditation Requirements (pdf)

6/27/2016

APPROPRIATE - For Risk Management Study: This activity meets the criteria of the Massachusetts Board … of Registration in Medicine for risk 11 management study. OR (number of credits) credit(s) meet … the criteria of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for risk management study. The learning …

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Efficacy of Stool Testing for Colorectal Cancer Screening

6/24/2016

This CME-certified online activity is eligible for the designated number of AMA PRA credits listed in the course description.  Physicians who successfully complete the activity are awarded the number of credits for which the activity is designated. Click heading to learn more.

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Massachusetts Medical Society: 5,000 Prescribers have Taken 15,000 Courses in Safe Opioid Prescribing

6/23/2016

pain without overusing opioids, managing risk when prescribing narcotics, safe prescribing for chronic … have taken one or more of its 18 continuing medical education courses on opioids and pain management … of this year, a total of 15, 175 of the Society’s continuing medical education courses in pain management …

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Vital Signs Summer 2016 (pdf)

6/20/2016

Risk Management CME Electronic Health Records Education (3 modules) • Module 1 — EHR Best Practices … Dependence and Preventing Abuse (Legal Advisor) • Managing Risk when Prescribing Narcotic Painkillers … Marijuana and the Developing Adolescent Brain Additional Risk Management CME Courses • Initiating …

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Firearm Violence: Policy, Prevention & Public Health

6/13/2016

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The Character and Qualifications of the Good Physician

6/9/2016

with the ordinary management of a ship, but unless this theoretical and practical knowledge be at the command … of the quality of what they purchase. I commend not, I approve not this. Even at the risk of a loss …

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Condition and Prospects of the Medical Profession

6/9/2016

the astronomer. The telescope is much easier of management than the microscope. It is easy to follow the stately … in the management of disease. This want it has been extremely difficult to supply in the ordinary course of practice … the observation of the great first law in Therapeutics, ‘to do no hurt,’ we cannot run the sort of risk which …

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Pulmonary Consumption, Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

6/9/2016

, at the risk even of being justly chargeable with repetition, I shall contemplate briefly in detail some … management of their children, more especially their female children, by improperly adapted clothing. How much … not their different early management be plausibly suggested as one probable cause? In the school-room they may suffer …

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