Membership Dues & Categories

Contact Haley Wansing, Director of Membership, or Stephen Foutes, Director of Marketing, for more information, or call 800-869-6762.
MSMA Dues Schedule
  • Active: $395/year
  • First Year Practice: $100/year
  • Second Year Practice: $200/year
  • Third Year Practice: $300/year
  • Honor/Retired: $25/year
  • Resident Physician: $25/year
  • Affiliate Member (including Assistant Physician): $25/year
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Description of Membership Categories
​Members of this Association shall be those individuals who are legally qualified physicians practicing in Missouri, except as otherwise provided. Each member must be of good moral and professional standing, and must not support, nor practice, nor claim to practice any exclusive system of medicine.

In component societies which require membership in the Association, the Association shall require members to belong to the component  society.
There shall be five classes of members as follows:
  • Active members shall be limited to those members who (1) hold the degree of Doctor of Medicine or Bachelor of Medicine, and (2) members who hold the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy. 
  • Resident members shall be limited to those members of the Resident and Fellow Section who are serving a full-time postgraduate training program approved by the American Medical Association or the American Osteopathic Association and shall enjoy all of the privileges of active membership.
  • Student members shall be limited to those members of the Medical Student Section who are pursuing a course of study leading to the degree of Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy in a medical school approved by the American Medical Association or American Osteopathic Association and shall have all the privileges of active membership.
  • Honor members shall be limited to active members who have reached advanced years and have long served the Association and the profession. They shall enjoy all the privileges of active membership.
  • Special Dues-Exempt members shall be limited to those members who have been elected to the U.S. Congress, the Missouri State Legislature, or to an office in the executive branch of the state or federal government. They shall be exempt from the payment of dues until the term of their political office expires, and shall enjoy all the privileges of active membership.
  • Affiliate members shall be those individuals who contribute to the health care of the public through employment service to MSMA members and component societies and who are not otherwise eligible for active membership. The criteria for affiliate membership and the policies governing the participation of affiliate members shall be established and maintained by the Council. Affiliate members shall have no voting rights nor will this class of membership apply toward House of Delegates or Council representation.