 News Briefs
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Naples VA clinic to relocate, expand: "Bay Pines VA Healthcare System entered into a 10-year, $3.9 million lease agreement with HTA Commons V, LLC that will relocate and expand the Naples Community Based Outpatient Clinic to more than double its size from 4,400 square feet to 9,300 square feet." -
News-Press
Florida IDs new Miami neighborhood as Zika zone: "Gov. Rick Scott's office announced Thursday that five people have been infected with Zika in a 1-square-mile area of the city just north of the Little Haiti neighborhood." -
Naples Daily News
Internal medicine residency program set to start at NCH: "NCH Healthcare System has received accreditation to offer an internal medicine residency program from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Interviewing medical school seniors for the program's first residents will begin Oct. 17." -
The Florida Weekly
ONC finalizes rule giving it more oversight of EHRs: "The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has finalized a rule giving it more oversight over certifying EHRs and other technologies that store, share and analyze health information for consumers." -
Modern Healthcare
EHR Improvements After the AMA Hateful 8 List: "Two years ago, the American Medical Association (AMA) created a committee to provide recommendations on how to improve the usability of electronic health records (EHR). Their list outlined eight areas where improvements were needed to stop the disruption that resulted from the Meaningful Use EHR requirement." -
AdvancedMD
Physicians beat symptom checkers but still misdiagnose 15% of the time: "While physicians trump online symptom checkers when it comes to diagnosing clinical cases, they still misdiagnose cases 15% of the time, a report published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association found." -
Modern Healthcare
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CCMS Member Notices
Deadline TODAY: CCMS physician members are invited to submit applications to speak at the 9th Annual CCMS Women's Health Forum March 4, 2017 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church.
Return your completed speaker form by end of day TODAY, Thursday, October 20th by fax to 239-435-7790 or
email us.
CCMS members and all vendors are also invited to sponsor and/or exhibit at this event. Complete the Sponsor/Exhibitor Form and return via fax to 435-7790 or email. Questions? Call CCMS at 435-7727.
CCMS 2017 member dues invoices for individual and group practices will be mailed shortly. The dues deadline is December 31, 2016. Members can also pay online at
ccmsonline.org/membership#payments. New this year, all members are invited to purchase a 2017 resident discount card at $10 per member (normally $35) as an add-on to your dues payments. Visit
www.rcccard.com for more information on the card.
New member recruitment incentive: current members who refer three new CCMS members in 2017 will receive a dues credit for 2018.
Contact CCMS for details.
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Upcoming Events
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Don't miss the last After 5 Social of the year, tomorrow at Dr. Kent Hasen's office! |
TOMORROW, October 21, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery & Med Spa of Naples
October 29, 7:00pm
November 11, Wyndemere Country Club
November 16, Brookdale Naples
Local partner CME events:
- NCH CME Mandatories: Open to all physicians, no RSVP necessary, NCH Downtown, Telford Building. Wednesday, November 9, 5:30pm - Prevention of Medical Errors, Tuesday, December 6, 5:30pm - Domestic Violence.
- Breast Surgery Updates: 2016: presented by NCH & 21st Century Oncology, Wednesday, October 26, 5:30-7:00pm, Moorings Park Center for Healthy Living. 1 CME Credit. More information & registration details
- 2nd Annual Naples Diabetes Conference: presented by Lee Health, Sunday, November 6, 10:00am-4:00pm, Naples YMCA. 4 CME Credits, $10 fee. More information & registration details
CCMS members - have you signed up for your FREE professional CE Broker account with CCMS? If not, send your license number and preferred email to
CCMS, we will enroll you in the professional version of CE Broker at no additional charge.
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Spotlight on CCMS Members
Email your news to CCMS to be included in the next issue!
Dr. Anurag Agarwal earned the highest combined score on the oral and written portions of the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ABFPRS) Maintenance of Certification examination in 2016. Dr. Agarwal was honored at the annual ABFPRS national meeting in October 2016 for his accomplishment.
A number of CCMS member physicians were featured in the October 2016 issue of
D'Latinos Magazine:
Drs. Sandra Jara, Gustavo Rivera, and Rafael Urbina were featured in the cover story, "Excelencia en la Investigación y Medicina Preventiva" on page 44.
Dr. Giselle Martin contributed the article "La Corrección de las Cataratas" on page 22.
Dr. Ferdy Santiago was profiled in the article "Guerrero Contra el Cáncer" on page 34, and
Dr. Rolando Rivera was profiled in the article "Excelencia en la Urología" on page 36.
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MACRA Final Rule Published
by Health Services Advisory Group
On October 14, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized its policy implementing the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and the Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) incentive payment provisions in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), collectively referred to as the Quality Payment Program (QPP). The new QPP will gradually transform Medicare payments for more than 600,000 clinicians across the country, and is a major step in improving care across the entire healthcare system.
The final rule with comment period offers a fresh start for Medicare by centering payments around the care that is best for the patients, providing more options to clinicians for innovative care and payment approaches, and reducing administrative burden to give clinicians more time to spend with their patients, instead of on paperwork.
Accompanying the announcement is a new QPP website, which will explain the new program and help clinicians easily identify the measures most meaningful to their practice or specialty.
For More Information:
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Final Rule and
Executive Summary
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Press Release
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Fact Sheet
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QPP website
Questions? Please contact your Florida HSAG representative: Diane Chronis, BS, RN, CMUP, HSAG Physician Office Executive Director, at 813.865.3170 or
[email protected]
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MACRA News & Tips
- Webinar, Friday, October 28, "Are You Ready for MIPS or APMs in 2017?" - Register online
- Article, "Final MACRA rule expands exemptions, flexibility" - Modern Healthcare
- AMA tools to help your practice prepare - Learn more
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CCMS Physician Directory Updates
Page 4 under Clinics, Senior Friendship Health Center: address should be 2355 Stanford Court, #701.
Page 79, under Torres, Adrian: fax number should be 430-6365.
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Collier County Medical Society, founded in 1957, is a non-profit professional association of over 500 physician members. We seek to advance the interests of physicians and their patients through education and the improvement of public health. This e-newsletter is designed to assist our members as we strive to provide the best healthcare in Southwest Florida.
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