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Texas Medical Association Calls for MU Changes

Healthcare Informatics: The Texas Medical Association (TMA) has sent a letter to state senators asking them for help in making changes to the meaningful use program.

TMA president Tom Garcia, M.D., sent the letter to Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on behalf of the 48,000-plus physician and medical student members of the association. The letter reads, “To Texas physicians, it appears the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other federal agencies never seem to tire in their campaigns to heap more useless requirements onto physicians’ practices. The most recent example involves the latest set of regulations governing the meaningful use program. Despite the well-reasoned concerns expressed by TMA and organized medicine, CMS insists on moving ahead with Stage 3 of the meaningful use requirements.”

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