Volume 116, Number 1 — January 2020
Cover Story: An Unfair Game (pages 18-25)
After three years of physician participation, Medicare’s quality program to drive value-based care continues to generate confusion, frustration, and worry that it’s only going to swallow up more physicians in its complex and financially punitive gameplay. By Joey Berlin
Q&A: Physician Podcaster (pages 6-7)
Jeffrey Jarvis, MD’s love of teaching propelled him to host a nationally distributed podcast on the science behind emergency medicine. By David Doolittle
Quality: Supporting Fair APM Payments (page 26)
AMA backs accounting for social determinants of health.
Practice Management: Taking Privacy to a New Level (pages 28-29)
Starting Jan. 1, breach notification requirements will become even more stringent for Texas physicians after the state lowered the threshold for reporting incidents of compromised data. By Sean Price
Law: An Injury to Justice (pages 32-36)
TMA is working to upend a recent appeals court decision that threatens to give health plans an overwhelming advantage in fee disputes in workers compensation cases. By Joey Berlin
Public Health: Left in the Dust (page 38-40)
Texas physicians currently underreport workplace illnesses like silicosis. That can change by getting better patient work histories. By Sean Price
Public Health: Breaking Down Barriers (pages 42-44)
LARCs often don't go to the women who need them. A new state effort could change that. By Sean Price
Vaccines (page 46)
Talk to Patients About: Community Immunity
Also in this issue:
Rounds
Deaths
Infographic: How Americans Feel About Health Care (page 30-31)