Monthly Archives: August 2012

CMS selects 73 Providers at 14 St. Elizabeth Physicians Practices for CPCI

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center has announced that 73 Kentucky primary care providers in 14 practices have been selected in the Cincinnati-Dayton market to participate in the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative. These  Kentucky practices join in with 75 providers from Ohio to represent 261 physicians. A total of 500 […]

By |August 23rd, 2012|Hot Topics|

Congrads Dr. Zook — appointed to Kentucky Medicaid P&T Advisory Committee

Dr. Melissa Zook, KAFP’s Secretary, received official notice that she has been appointed to the Kentucky Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee.  The Committee makes recommendation to the Cabinet on prescription drugs to be added or deleted from the preferred drug list.  For more info — click on this web link —

By |August 23rd, 2012|Hot Topics|

Email Notice from KBML on HB1

***IMPORTANT NOTICES***

PLEASE READ HB 1 AND THE SPECIFIC REGULATIONS

It appears to the Board that doctors are being provided incorrect, misleading and/or confusing information about HB 1 and the specific regulations relating to licensing.

The information in each of these documents may directly affect your practice of medicine or osteopathy and possibly your license to practice.  Therefore, […]

By |August 21st, 2012|Hot Topics|

Pres Blog

I spent last week at Southeast Forum and found many family docs in the south dealing with same issues we are in Ky. There’s a lot of angst re:Obamacare and expansion of Medicaid. There’s also still hope that something good will come from all this. The role of PCMH still looks favorable, we heard from […]

By |August 21st, 2012|President's Blog|

Aug 1st Webinar on “Understanding the Prescription Drug Bill” (aka HB1)

Title: Understanding the Prescription Drug Law (aka Kentucky General Assembly’s House Bill 1

Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT

On Aug 1st, 2012 Ms. Carole D. Christian, Partner and Ms. Rosalind Cordini, Associate with WYATT TARRANT & COMBS, LLP  gave a webinar on “Understanding the Prescription Drug Bill” which covered the following objectives —

1. […]

By |August 1st, 2012|Hot Topics|