Advocacy Efforts Improve Reporting Under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System
KMA and other medical associations helped prompt positive changes to final regulations for the Medicare Accountability and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).
Read more about how physicians now have more flexibility for reporting measures and less performance measures to report.
MSOL Program Covers Topics
Important to Future Physicians
The Kentucky Foundation for Medical Care will fund KMA's Medical Student Outreach and Leadership Program (MSOL). Read what Melinda Ruberg, a University of Louisville medical student, has to say about this program that helps students with topics not taught in medical school that are relevant to their future.
WASTE + WANT Solution
Supplies Over Seas Recovers Medical Surplus to Ship Around the World
There's WASTE--4 to 6 million tons of medical waste is created each year; 85 percent is reusable. There's WANT--6 to 10 million children worldwide will die before their fifth birthday due to lack of access to health care.
Supplies Over Seas (SOS) provides a connection for the waste and want.
Read how the Kentucky Foundation provided a grant this year to help SOS meet its goals.
Partnership for Commonsense Justice Interviews Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Candidates
KMA is a member of the Partnership for Commonsense Justice, a
coalition of Kentucky businesses, business groups, healthcare organizations, and nonprofits dedicated to promoting a balanced, efficient and fair justice system. PCJ recently interviewed two candidates for Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court. Click on the images below for the full interviews.
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KMA Member Recognized as "Compassion Champion"
Scott Hedges, M.D., senior vice president and chief medical officer for Seven Counties Services, Inc., Louisville, was recognized for his dedication to bringing high quality care to the city's most vulnerable populations.
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