Welcome to the online home of the ACOEP Resident Chapter!On behalf of the Executive Board and Regional Directors, I would like to welcome you to the ACOEP Resident Chapter Website. I am excited to be serving as your ACOEP Resident Chapter President! The resident chapter continues to be a strong force within the college. The chapter is here to support each and every osteopathic physician currently enrolled in Emergency Medicine residency training. The officers and regional board members are your liaison to the college and we represent the collective voice of Osteopathic EM residents. Over the last few years, participation in the resident chapter activities has been outstanding! I assure you that we will continue to provide exciting and unique experiences to our residents throughout the year.
In order to accomplish one of our major goals in promoting resident participation in the college, we now have resident members assigned as full fledged committee members to a number of ACOEP committees. This increases our ability to actively participate in the business of the college and provides additional avenues for resident participation and mentoring in areas of interest. Currently there are members appointed to the Government Affairs, Undergraduate Medical Education, EMS, and Research Committees. If you would like to become more involved with the college as a committee representative, please contact me. A full list of current committees can be found at:
This is your college. It is only as good as you make it. Let us work for you! Contact us with problems, suggestions or questions. We are happy to listen and advocate for your concerns. I look forward to meeting many of you at both our Spring Meeting in Scottsdale and the Scientific Seminar in San Francisco! Respectfully,
Tim Cheslock, D.O.
ACOEP Resident Chapter President
Check out the latest issue of The Pulse located in the Newsroom.Have you visited our Career Center lately? Be sure to check out our featured employer, TEAM HEALTH on the ACOEP Career Center today! The following information has been provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has directed its contractors to discontinue processing claims at the negative rate and to temporarily hold all claims for services rendered June 1, 2010, and later, until the new 2.2 percent update rates are tested and loaded into the Medicare contractors’ claims processing systems. Effective testing of the new 2.2 percent update will ensure that claims are correctly paid at the new rates. CMS expects to begin processing claims at the new rates no later than July 1, 2010. Claims for services rendered prior to June 1, 2010, will continue to be processed and paid as usual. All claims that contain June 2010 dates of service which have been paid reflecting the 21.3% cut will be reprocessed as soon as possible. Under current law, Medicare payments to physicians and other providers paid under the MPFS are based upon the lesser of the submitted charge on the claim or the MPFS amount. Claims containing June dates of service that were submitted with charges greater than or equal to the new 2.2 percent update rates will be automatically reprocessed. Physicians who submitted claims containing June dates of service with charges less than the 2.2 percent update amount will need to contact their local Medicare contractor to request an adjustment. Submitted charges on claims cannot be altered without a request from the physician. Physicians should not resubmit claims already submitted to their Medicare contractor. Shawn Martin Director of Government Relations American Osteopathic Association 202-414-0140 | 800-962-9008 smartin@osteopathic.org Has your status changed? For the latest H1N1 Flu Guidelines from the CDC click here ALERT: Possible BCBS Security Breach: Any osteopathic physician participating in a BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS) plan should be advised about a possible security breach. Information about tens of thousands of physicians participating in BCBSA health plans nationwide might have been compromised after a laptop containing information about them was stolen in August. The laptop included information that BCBS affiliates send to BCBS' Chicago headquarters weekly to update the BCBS' database of health care providers. With increased focus on the FTC Red Flag Rules to address identity theft, as well as the new security regulations that require notification of security breaches, BCBS made this notification of the breach of physician information public on 10/5/09. For more information, contact your BCBS carrier or the AOA Division of Socioeconomic Affairs at 1-800-621-1773 ext 8282. Check out the Spring 2010 issue of the Student Chapter newsletter, The Emergent...more> The ACOEP Student Lecture Series are no longer available on CD-ROM, please visit our student member section to view the lectures online! Get Notified of An Emergency by Email, Cell, or Pager... more > |
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