Resolution #1 - MSMA Neutrality on Medicaid Expansion
Resolution not adopted - Resolved, that the position of the MSMA shall be to remain neutral on expansion of Medicaid in Missouri.
Resolution #2 - Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Resolution #7 - Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Adopted Substitute Resolution – That MSMA reaffirms its support for a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program and continues to work for its passage by the Missouri General Assembly.
Resolution #3 - Support for Ethics Ruling on Markups for Pathology Services
Referred to MSMA Council
Resolved, the MSMA will direct the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs to definitively rule, within the calendar year 2013, whether MSMA physicians who mark up and client bill for pathology services are behaving unethically.
Resolution #4 - Support for Direct Billing Legislation for Pathology Services
Referred to MSMA Council
Resolved, the MSMA will support with full force and vigor any and all efforts to pass direct billing legislation for pathology services in the State of Missouri.
Resolution #5 - Peer-to-Peer Appeals Process in Missouri
Adopted amended Resolution
Resolved, that the MSMA actively work with the Missouri Department of Insurance to gather data regarding the training and background of physicians providing peer-to-peer review, and be it further
Adopted amended Resolution
Resolved, that the MSMA actively work with the Missouri Department of Insurance to gather data regarding the training and background of physicians providing peer-to-peer review, and be it further
Resolved, that the MSMA actively work with the Missouri Department of Insurance to compel all health insurers in Missouri and their contractors to always provide physicians who are clinical peers to appropriately address peer-to-peer appeals, and to identify their background credentials if requested, and be it further
Resolved, that the MSMA actively work with the Missouri Department of Insurance to require more oversight of the peer-to-peer appeals process, and to study its effectiveness in optimizing patient care; and be it further
Resolved, that the MSMA work with the AMA to study and promote these objectives at a national level.
Resolution #6 - Sale of pseudoephedrine to prescription only
Referred to MSMA Council
Resolved, The Missouri State Medical Association support legislation to limit the sale of pseudoephedrine to prescription only.
Referred to MSMA Council
Resolved, The Missouri State Medical Association support legislation to limit the sale of pseudoephedrine to prescription only.
Resolution #8 - Support for Increase Funding for Prevention of Firearm Injuries and Deaths
Adopted
Resolved, that MSMA send a letter of support to the AMA to continue to urge Congress to provide the CDC with sufficient resources to study firearm related injury data and, be it further
Adopted
Resolved, that MSMA send a letter of support to the AMA to continue to urge Congress to provide the CDC with sufficient resources to study firearm related injury data and, be it further
Resolved, the AMA encourages the development and presentation of gun safety programs that educate the public on the responsible use and storage of firearms.
Resolution #9 - Support of Senator Feinstein’s Bill for Stricter Control of Assault Weapons
Withdrawn by resolution sponsor
Resolution #9 - Support of Senator Feinstein’s Bill for Stricter Control of Assault Weapons Withdrawn by resolution sponsor
Resolved, that MSMA will draft a letter of support for the AMA’s position on Sen. Feinstein’s bill.
Withdrawn by resolution sponsor
Resolved, that MSMA will draft a letter of support for the AMA’s position on Sen. Feinstein’s bill.
Resolution #10 – Medical Ethics
Referred to MSMA Council
Resolved, to help minimize lawsuits and practice the best medicine we should each seriously recognize and conscientiously follow good traditional ethical standards of beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and autonomy, then in addition appropriately the Judeo-Christian virtues of truth, honesty, compassion, charity, wisdom, responsibility, perseverance, courage, work, and faith. The right of physicians to practice according to their conscience must be protected by law.
Referred to MSMA Council
Resolved, to help minimize lawsuits and practice the best medicine we should each seriously recognize and conscientiously follow good traditional ethical standards of beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and autonomy, then in addition appropriately the Judeo-Christian virtues of truth, honesty, compassion, charity, wisdom, responsibility, perseverance, courage, work, and faith. The right of physicians to practice according to their conscience must be protected by law.
Resolution #11 – Electronic Medical Records – Prior Authorization of Procedure
Referred to MSMA Council
Therefore be it resolved, that St. Charles – Lincoln County Medical Society supports legislation to ensure that, as electronic medical records are adopted broadly, such systems should adhere to the following principles;
Referred to MSMA Council
Therefore be it resolved, that St. Charles – Lincoln County Medical Society supports legislation to ensure that, as electronic medical records are adopted broadly, such systems should adhere to the following principles;
·Physicians must retain responsibility for treatment decisions for patients regarding prescriptions and procedures;
·Electronic medical record systems should be provided through a neutral and open platform that does not advance the commercial interests of any particular participant (e.g., health insurers, hospitals, pharmacy benefit managers, pharmaceutical companies, , etc.) to the potential detriment of the patient;
·Electronic medical record systems must allow for submission and approval of prior authorization requests electronically, offering real-time feedback on such requests within hours;
(In the event an electronic prior authorization system is not readily available, a universal One-page prior authorization form for all payers must be used)
·Messages transmitted to physicians and their staff through electronic medical record systems must be sourced from evidence-based third-party or academically published research;
·Electronic medical record systems must support greater access to data for better clinical decision-making, including alerts to potential adverse events;
·Information communicated via electronic medical record systems should not be selectively or competitively pushed to the physician and such distribution must not diminish a patient’s right to appeal decisions;
·Electronic medical record systems must conform to prevailing quality, transparency and technical standards established for such systems; and
·Patient privacy must be protected; and be it further
Resolved, that St. Charles – Lincoln County Medical Society resolution be that prior authorization systems be transparent, with criteria for approval for a treatment readily available to the health care provider.
Resolution #12 – Conversion of Local City Hospital to a Nonprofit Organization
Adopted
Resolved, that MSMA support SB443 which will allow the conversion of a local city hospital to a nonprofit organization governed by Missouri’s nonprofit corporation law.
