The Michigan State Medical Society

1. The Michigan State Medical Society Cheryl Gibson-Fountain, MD Member, Board of Directors Michigan State Medical Society

2. Overview • Legislative Advocacy/Need for Physician Involvement • MSMS Strategic Goals/Future of Medicine • Payer Advocacy • Educational Opportunities • Opportunities for Physician Involvement

3. Legislative Advocacy • Protecting and strengthening tort reform • MSMS helped pass legislation in both the Michigan House and Senate that will do the following • Better define “economic” damages • Close loophole that allows attorneys to double the statute of limitations • Close other legal loopholes that are being exploited by trial lawyers • Put patients first, not their lawyer

4. Legislative Advocacy Continued • Auto No-Fault • Preserve Michigan’s model auto no-fault system • Proposed changes would cost Beaumont hospital 27 million in first year alone • Scope of Practice • Education, not legislation should dictate scope of practice • Nurse practitioners, physical therapists and other non-physicians are constantly pushing to expand their scope through legislative action • IPAB Repeal • Work on the federal level to repeal Independent Payment Advisory Board, make sure that un-elected bureaucrats are not making health care decisions

5. Physician Involvement Is No Longer Optional • 148 members of the Michigan Legislature • Only one physician • Senator Roger Kahn, MD (R-Saginaw) • Other key lawmakers • Chair of Senate Health Policy Committee-Jim Marleau (R-Lake Orion) • Chair of House Health Policy-Gail Haines (R-Lake Angelus) • Legislation is being introduced everyday that impacts all manner of what you do and will be able to do going forward • Develop relationships with your lawmakers, donate to their campaign, become a resource for them

6. MSMS Strategic Goals/Future of Medicine • Viability of Primary Care • Quality & Safety • Medicaid • Health Care Resources Stewardship • Child Obesity

7. Payer Advocacy • MSMS meets monthly with payers to bring issues forward and work towards a more transparent payment system • Focus on PGIP and other pay for performance models • Expansion of PGIP to specialties that can’t currently participate

8. Educational Opportunities • MSMS offers CME and other educational opportunities for physicians state wide • Annual Scientific Meeting in Troy • Yearly Conference on Bioethics • Sports Medicine • Physician Leadership Training • Customizable Training

9. Opportunities for Physician Involvement • Examples of MSMS Standing Committees • Bioethics • Health Care Quality Efficiency and Economics • Third Party Payer • Public Health • HIT • Legislation and Regulation • Doctor of the Day Program • Come to the Capitol and be a lobbyist for a day

10. Your Membership Matters • MSMS is the strongest voice that Michigan physicians have and we need every physician to participate • Your membership gives you access to weekly communications, members only section of www.msms.org, Michigan Medicine Magazine, and a host of other information outlets. • You can join online at www.joinmsms.org

11. Questions? • Thank you for your membership and thank you for what you do every day for your patients.