Programming, chaired by Lancer Gates, DO works with staff to:
Develop and coordinate all Society activities to include, member events, and other programs administered and supported by the Society.

• Events – Annual Meeting, Merck series, Plaza Art Fair and holiday open houses, Symposia
• Northland CARE/MetroCARE liaison
• KCMedNet and resident events
• Medical Directors Council

Communications, chaired by Michelle Haines, MD works with staff to:
Conduct the Society’s media liaison activities and oversight and supervision of the Society’s Publications

• Greater KC Medical Bulletin – quarterly magazine
• Bi-weekly e-newsletter
• Bi-annual pictorial directory
• Websites – metromedkc.org and kcmednet.com

Government Relations, chaired by Jim Kelly, MD is active during the Kansas and Missouri legislative session. The committee meets monthly to discuss legislation in addition to meeting with legislators as well as sets the Society’s public policy agenda.

Membership, the chair position is currently open. The committee is charged to:

• attract new Society members
• retain current members
• supervise existing programs and initiate new programs which offer services to members

MSMA Resolutions – Your Issues, Your Chance to Shape Medicine

MSMA House of Delegates resolutions can change the health care environment in Missouri. Submit your resolutions to lbremer@msma.org by February 10th for consideration.

For resolution writing tips, visit www.msma.org/annualconvention

Hear Fred Bloom, MD with Geisinger Health Systems talk about the patient centered medical and how that model fits within Kansas City and the local practice environment.

Listen HERE.

MetroCARE THANK YOU Party

Join Northland CARE/MetroCARE for an appreciation party for all that you and your staff do for the program. Mark your calendars for December 7th from 5:30 – 8:00pm. Join us for live music, great food and drinks and the one best view of the Plaza lights around as we say thank you for another great year of taking care of Kansas City! RSVP here.

Thank you to the sponsors and attendees of the 130th Annual Meetings, over 120 physicians and business leaders attended a special night at the Kauffman Stadium. Len Nichols, PhD, our speaker told the audience that change in health care reform begins and ends with physician engagement. You can read more about Dr. Nichols here at his website for payment innovation.

Congratulations to Steve Reintjes, MD winner of the iPad raffle, proceeds supporting the MetroCARE program.

Holidays on the Plaza

• Residents (& a guest) are invited to network with fellow area Residents as well as Metro Med members on December 1st. Click here for more information.

• MetroCARE THANK YOU Party. Join Northland CARE/MetroCARE for an appreciation party for all that you and your staff do for the program. Mark your calendars for December 7th. RSVP here.

Interested in hosting a party in Metro Med’s office? Contact us for details, 816.531.8432.

Metro Med is celebrating 130 years of helping physicians thrive in Kansas City! Mark your calendars for Thursday, October 27th for our 130 Annual Meeting.

The event will begin at 5:30pm at the Kauffman Stadium, with the reception in the Hall of Fame Museum. Parking is available in Lot M and use Gate C. Staff will be onsite to direct you further.

Len Nichols, will begin speaking at 6:50pm and dinner starts at 8pm. Ask how your practice or hospital can get involved – don’t miss out on this piece of Metro Med history!
 
 

Metro Med Physicians Forming IPA

For more on the Independent Physician Association (IPA) being formed by Nate Granger, MD CLICK HERE for the Business Journal article. The next meeting is November 10th at 6:30pm at Metro Med’s offices, interested independent primary care doctors are especially encouraged to attend.
 
 

Dinner Meeting on the Future of Oncology Care in KC

A joint meeting with the Hematology/Oncology Roundtable and the Medical Directors Council will be held on November 3 starting at 6pm at the Plaza III Steakhouse. CLICK HERE to download a flier for more information and to RSVP.

Guest speakers include community leaders, Drs. Lee Newcomer and Roy Jensen who will lead an informal discussion on various local and national initiatives happening in greater Kansas City.

Did you know that Metro Med and Merck have teamed up to provide renowned speakers on a variety of topics to present FREE dinner meetings to area physicians. This quarterly program has grown into one of best kept secrets and this past Wednesday’s presentation on Models for Patient-Centered Care: Improving Chronic Care Management was one of the best yet! An engaging, knowledgeable and entertaining speaker, William Warning, MD fielded questions and open dialog from those in attendance. If you are interested in receiving a Merck toolkit on chronic care management, email here.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR – for the last of this year’s series, Wednesday, November 30th. Dinner starts at 6:30 in the Intercontinental’s Rooftop Ballroom. Hear a great speaker and get a fabulous view of the Plaza lights!
 
 

Celebrate the Plaza Art Fair’s 80th Year in Style

You and a Guest are invited to Metro Med’s Exclusive Members Only Art Fair Reception on Friday, September 23 from 5:30-8:30pm.
Join us in Metro Med’s 2nd Floor Plaza Office, 315 Nichols Road, Suite. 250. Music, Drinks & hors d’oeuvres, Private restrooms, Spectacular bird’s eye view of art fair are provided. You and your guest are invited to come and go throughout the evening.

RSVP here

Thanks to our sponsors – Capson and UMB Bank.

Translational research made the Chamber’s Big 5

The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce outlined its 5 Big Ideas for the region, and translational research is a big part of that. This initiative will be led by Dr. Patrick James, senior managing director of Quest Diagnostics’ Kansas business unit and chairman of the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute . Area hospitals and research entities will work together on the bi-state effort. Read more here.

Interested in more about how you can impact research in Kansas City. Email Jill Watson to be a part of Metro Med/KCMedNet’s Clinical Research Task Force.
 
 

Changes in KC’s Health Information Exchange

CLICK HERE for an announcement from ehealthAlign’s Board chair.
 
 

130th Annual Meeting

Metro Med is celebrating 130 years of helping physicians thrive in Kansas City! Mark your calendars for Thursday, October 27th for our 130 Annual Meeting. The event will begin at 5:30pm at the Kauffman Stadium, with the reception in the Hall of Fame Museum. Speaker at 6:30pm and dinner starts at 8pm. Ask how your practice or hospital can get involved – don’t miss out on this piece of Metro Med history!

Metro Med is celebrating 130 years of helping physicians thrive in Kansas City! Mark your calendars for Thursday, October 27th for our 130 Annual Meeting. Len Nichols, PhD, has been invited back to talk on health care reform and how it’s changed in the intervening two years. The event will begin at 5:30pm at the Kauffman Stadium, with the reception in the Hall of Fame Museum. Dr. Nichols will speak at 6:30pm and Dinner starts at 8pm. Ask how your practice or hospital can get involved – don’t miss out on this piece of Metro Med history!

Metro Med is once again hosting a networking event for area Residents, young physicians, and doctors new to Kansas City. Not a “young physician”? Mark your calendar anyway to come and chat with KC’s future physicians – this was a highlight last year for Residents to network with current physicians.

Save the date for Thursday, August 11th at Boulevard Brewing and join Metro Med and the Bank of Kansas for a great evening, catered by Blanc Burgers! You can register by emailing here.

130th Annual Meeting

Metro Med is celebrating 130 years of helping physicians thrive in Kansas City! Mark your calendars for Thursday, October 27th for our 130 Annual Meeting. Len Nichols, PhD, has been invited back to talk on health care reform and how it’s changed in the intervening two years. The event will begin at 5:30pm at the Kauffman Stadium, with the reception in the Hall of Fame Museum. Dr. Nichols will speak at 6:30pm and Dinner starts at 8pm. Ask how your practice or hospital can get involved – don’t miss out on this piece of Metro Med history!

The Government Relations Committee met with Ian McCaslin, MD, the Director of MO HealthNet, Missouri’s Medicaid program on June 23rd. Dr. McCaslin’s presentation, available here, was very informative. Workforce and accessibility were issues that were repeated by Dr. McCaslin and the committee.

Government Relations Committee Members with Ian McCaslin, MD

Other topic areas included:

• 1in 7 Missourians is covered by Medicaid
• Access for the newly eligible in 2014
• Physicians and the FRA tax
• Federal budget cuts and MO
• Small amount of MO General Revenue goes to Medicaid – most is provider tax
• MO Insurance Exchange

Save the date for the next Government Relations Committee – Thursday, August 18th at 6pm. Committee member and KS State Representative Jim Denning (Discover Vision) will be giving a presentation on his first year in office.

AMA Adopts Metro Med Resolution

During the recent AMA House of Delegates Meeting, the following resolution, put forth by Metro Med during the MSMA Annual Meeting in April, was accepted.
RESOLUTION 708 – SUPPORT OF PRIMARY CARE 14 THROUGH PAYMENT
RECOMMENDATION A:
Mr. Speaker, your Reference Committee recommends that Resolution 708 that Resolution 708 be amended by insertion and deletion on lines 14 – 18 to read as follow:
RESOLVED, That our American Medical Association communicate with large insurance companies that building financial incentives directing providing incentives to patients toward non-physician clinics outside the primary care physician relationship can lead to decisions made on limited information, duplication of testing and procedures, ultimately higher health care costs and a reduction in the quality of health care for the patients of America. (Directive to Take Action)

RECOMMENDATION B:
Mr. Speaker, your Reference Committee recommends that Resolution 708 be adopted as amended.
RECOMMENDATION C:
Mr. Speaker, your Reference Committee recommends that the title of Resolution 708 be changed to read as follows:
HOD ACTION: Resolution 708 adopted as amended with a change in title.
Resolution 708 asks that the AMA communicate with large insurance companies that building financial incentives directing patients toward non-physician clinics outside the primary care relationship can lead to decisions made on limited information, duplication of testing and procedures, ultimately higher health care costs and a reduction in the quality of health care for the patients of America.

Resident & Young Physician Event August 11

Metro Med is once again hosting a networking event for area Residents, young physicians, and doctors new to Kansas City. Not a “young physician”? Mark your calendar anyway to come and chat with KC’s future physicians – this was a highlight last year for Residents to network with current physicians.

Save the date for Thursday, August 11th at Boulevard Brewing and join Metro Med and the Bank of Kansas for a great evening, catered by Blanc Burgers! You can register by emailing here.

130th Annual Meeting

Metro Med is celebrating 130 years of helping physicians thrive in Kansas City! Mark your calendars for Thursday, October 27th for our 130 Annual Meeting. Len Nichols, PhD, has been invited back to talk on health care reform and how it’s changed in the intervening two years. The event will begin at 5:30pm at the Kauffman Stadium, with the reception in the Hall of Fame Museum. Dr. Nichols will speak at 6:30pm and Dinner starts at 8pm. Ask how your practice or hospital can get involved – don’t miss out on this piece of Metro Med history!