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51st Annual Convention & Exposition
Plan now to join us at our 51st Annual Convention and Exposition scheduled for February 8-12, 2012.
The convention will be held at the:
Hyatt Regency Mission Bay, Spa and Marina
1441 Quivira Road
San Diego, CA 92109
To register, reserve your room or for exhibit and sponsorship information, please click here.
Osteopathic Physicians Represented in “Essential Benefits” Discussion
OPSC was represented in a discussion defining Essential Benefits under federal health care reform at a forum in San Francisco on Monday, November 21.
Essential Benefits are core health services that must be covered by all health insurance plans sold through state exchanges. The US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is hosting a series of sessions to obtain input on the designation of Essential Benefits.
OPSC, working in conjunction with the American Osteopathic Association, was represented at the November San Francisco session. Key points from the osteopathic profession specify that Essential Benefits must:
1. Meet diverse patient needs, including lower and middle income patients, to ensure access to affordable, quality care.
2. Promote medical advances, ensuring that Californians have access to new and innovative health care treatments.
3. Improve/extend the lives of patients while lowering health care costs.
4. Protect the patient-physician relationship and preserve their autonomy in treatment options.
5. Promote quality improvement and aggregate data collection.
6. Respect state flexibility, but not be obligated to honor state-based coverage mandates.
7. Provide access to appropriate diagnostic and treatment modalities, ultimately utilizing evidence based medicine and accepted comparative effectiveness research.
8. Require minimal administrative processes.
9. Minimize barriers to care, such as prohibitive co-pays or other out of pocket costs.
The osteopathic profession firmly believes that access to affordable health coverage must be preserved and not unduly compromised by benefit design.
Lower Your Vaccine Costs With Atlantic Health Partners
Now is the best time to join Atlantic Health Partners, the nation’s leading vaccine buying group, so you get the lowest prices before the back to school peak vaccine season!
Atlantic works with Sanofi Pasteur and Merck to provide our members with the lowest vaccine prices and most favorable payment terms for all size practices.
Additional benefits offered by Atlantic:
- Reimbursement support
- Medical supply discount program
- Office and business supply discounts
- Discounts for WellConnect patient recall program
Please contact Jeff Winokur and Cindy Berenson at 800-741-2044 or info@atlantichealthpartners.com for additional information, and join the nearly 10,000 physicians nationwide already benefiting from Atlantic’s savings and support. www.atlantichealthpartners.com
New Osteopathic Headquarters
 OPSC is pleased to present the new home of osteopathic medicine in the State of California. OPSC headquarters is now based in this dramatic restored colonial style historic building in downtown Sacramento.
2015 H Street
Sacramento, CA 95811
Phone #: (916) 822-5246
Toll free: (800) 638-6772
Fax #: (916) 822-5247
Determine Your Eligibility
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) have produced a tutorial to assist physicians in determing if they are eligilbe to participate in the electronic health records incentive program. We encourage you to click below to determine your eligibility.
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