President Trump Signs Healthcare Executive Orders
July 24, 2020 - President Trump signs Executive Orders, attempting to lower prescription drug costs and increase Americans’ access to life-saving medications.
  • EO 13937 - directs federally qualified health centers to pass along massive discounts on insulin and epinephrine received from drug companies to certain low-income Americans
  • EO 13938 - allows State plans for safe importation of certain drugs, authorize the re-importation of insulin products made in the US, and create a pathway for widespread use of personal importation waivers at authorized pharmacies in the US
  • EO 13939 - prohibits secret deals between drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit manager middlemen, ensuring patients directly benefit from available discounts at the pharmacy counter
WMS Virtual Education Opportunity
The American Academy of Pediatrics Presents:

Vaccine Hesitancy

Tuesday, August 25, 2020 
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Richard Moriarty, MD
Vaccine Hesitancy Discussion:

  • Recent updates about seasonal influenza vaccine and HPV vaccine
  • Origins of the recent surge in anti-vaccine sentiment 
  • Effective strategies to increase vaccine confidence 
  • Legislative advocacy for pediatric vaccines
  • Q&A
Wyoming Business Council - Business Relief Program
In May 2020, the Wyoming Legislature passed a bill to distribute $325 million in federal CARES Act funding to Wyoming businesses and nonprofits that have experienced hardship related to the COVID-19 crisis.
Project Echo
ECHO MS increases the capacity of neurologists to diagnose and manage patients with MS. The program establishes an innovative peer-to-peer professional knowledge sharing network through a six month 12 CME cohort.
The ECHO MS hubs are based at the following locations:
  • Eastern Hub – Duke University Medical Center MS Center
  • Central Hub – The John L. Trotter MS Center at the Washington University St.Louis School of Medicine
  • Pacific Hub – University of Washington Medicine MS Center

The Society invites you to join Project ECHO’s global movement and the ECHO MS initiative.
Lung Cancer and COVID-19 in the Outpatient Setting: What Clinicians Need to Know
Patients with underlying health conditions such as lung cancer are at greater risk for infection or complications from COVID-19. Because of this increased risk, it is important that these patients are carefully managed, with telemedicine replacing in-person visits where possible. However, monitoring patients via telemedicine requires special attention, particularly because symptoms of COVID-19 infection are similar to common adverse events associated with lung cancer treatment. 
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AMA Collaboration Offers PPE Supplier for Physicians
The AMA is stepping in to help keep physicians and their patients safe, collaborating with the nonprofit Project N95 to reserve quality certified PPE exclusively for AMA members to purchase with no minimum. Available equipment includes:

  • Makrite 9500 N95 surgical respirator; FDA 510(K) cleared, CDC NIOSH approved, sizes small and medium/large
  • Disposable isolation gown; AAMI Level 1
Save the Date
A Message From Wildflower
Meet Wildflower
Wildflower is a personalization engine for women’s health that digitally connects women and their families to healthcare.

More About Wildflower

  • Offering no cost software for OB/GYN practices to support them through the COVID-19 crisis
  • Currently onboarding beta sites to get the virtual visit/device fulfillment program up and running
  • Enrolling OB/GYN practices nationwide so they’ll be ready to launch soon after the beta
  • Partnering with health plans to create virtual visit programs that would cover the cost of the remote monitoring devices
  • Supporting the patient experience for virtual visits to enable our partners to meet the needs for the next evolution of care and payment models
WYOPAC
WYOPAC, the Wyoming Medical Society’s Political Action Committee, fights for Wyoming physicians by helping to elect state and federal candidates who support the WMS’ policy agenda.
By electing legislators who will reduce the cumbersome regulations that inhibit the practice of medicine, WMS lobbyists are equipped with the political muscle to enact meaningful reforms for the health care industry.

By contributing to WYOPAC, you will substantially enhance the WMS’ advocacy efforts at the Wyoming State Legislature.  WYOPAC promotes and strives for the improvement of government by encouraging and stimulating physicians to take a more active part in government affairs.

The 2020 election will be an important one! The deadline to file to run for office closed Friday, May 29. The final listing of Wyoming primary candidates can be viewed HERE.

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