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Membership
Status
As of February 2014,
active GLMS membership
numbered 2004, which is
80 percent of physicians
practicing in Jefferson
County.
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Board of Governors’ Highlights
February 14, 2014
• Kentuckiana Health Collaborative Co-Director
Randa Deaton presented an update on KHC’s
group practice quality reporting website. The
website, set to launch this spring, will contain
consumer education, group practice comparisons, and hospital comparisons. The reports
focus mainly on primary care group practices
with at least three providers with a minimum
of 30 patients per measure, and who don’t opt
out. Practices featured will be located in Jefferson, Oldham and Bullit counties in Kentucky
and Floyd, Harrison, Clark and Scott counties in
Indiana. Reports will be based on claims submitted for 20 HEDIS measures from the various
insurance plans, including multi-payer, commercial and Medicaid plans, which will be added
up to get the total score for each measure. The
individual physician reports will be combined to
reach a group practice score. The GLMS Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety Committee has
been very involved in this project and welcomes
physician input.
• Secretary Robert A. Zaring, MD, MMM, reported
that membership data was submitted to Louisville Magazine at the end of January for their 2014
Fit Louisville Health Guide. Associate Executive
Director Bert Guinn, MBA, CAE, added that the
guide is essentially a public version of the roster.
The publication will come out in the spring and
40,000 will be distributed to Louisville Magazine
subscribers, YMCAs, and physicians.
• The GLMS Proposed Ballot was announced to
the membership by e-mail and on the website
on February 1 as indicated in our bylaws. The
election will occur online in mid-March.
• Treasurer Robert Couch, MD, MBA, reported that
79% of Active members had paid their 2014 dues,
compared with 73% at the same time last year.
• Board Chair Russell Williams, MD, reported that
after examination, it was found that GLMS’s investment portfolio included a single mutual fund
investing in tobacco products. That mutual fund
will be eliminated from the portfolio. President
Elect Bruce Scott, MD, suggested the Board look
at the portfolio each year with the financial advisor prior to the annual report to ensure GLMS isn’t
investing in major health-related vices.
• Brian Sosnin, DO, Robert Zaring, MD, MMM,
and Tracy Ragland, MD were appointed to the
newly created Bylaws Task Force. President
James Patrick Murphy, MD, MMM, will oversee
the task force.
• Dr. Murphy reported on the success of the inaugural OPIOID course. See story page 5.
• Metro Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt, MD,
announced that the Healthy Louisville 20/20 plan
would launch on Feb. 19 and would focus on community health, including banning e-cigarettes and
hookahs to minors. A community dashboard will
be launched this spring that will allow entities to
self-report what they’re doing to help with those
issues making it easier for groups to partner with
common goals. Funding opportunities will also
be circulated on the site.
• UofL School of Medicine Dean Toni Ganzel,
MD, announced that construction on the preclinical instruction building has started. Major
construction will begin when the first and second
year students complete their instruction and be
completed by the end of the academic year. This
should coincide with the launch of their completely integrated first year curriculum. They are
also creating an Office of Community Eng agement
as a result of strategic planning, with the goal of
engaging the nursing school, school of public
health and dental school to make more of an
impact on the community.
• GLMS Foundation Director Terry Todd thanked
the Board for supporting the Comprehensive
Campaign and reminded members that the 4th
Annual Scholarship Golf Outing will take place
on September 22, 2014.
• Karyn Hascal, president of The Healing Place,
announced the annual Celebrate Freedom Dinner
was sold out. Also, the organization is planning a
variety of activities to celebrate its 25th anniversary in August. On January 28, THP’s Board voted
unanimously to move forward with redeveloping
the men’s campus.
• KMA President Fred Williams, MD, reported on
some of the issues that KMA and GLMS were taking to Frankfort for Physicians’ Day at the Capitol
on February 26:
o The Good Samaritan Law
o Medical Review Panel
o Smoke-free legislation
o MOST (Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment)
Dr. Murphy encouraged members to call the
Legislative Message Line at 800-372-7181 to ask
their legislators for support of these issues.
Dr. Williams also reported the nurse practitioner
bill moved out of the Senate and has gone to the
Governor to sign.
• Dr. Zaring, AMA Alternate Delegate, gave a report
on AMA issues:
o ICD10 is supposed to go into place on October
1 but a new report looking at the cost shows it
tripled since last predictions were made. Insurance companies are also reportedly not prepared, with only a small percentage of claims
making it through the pass through process.
Ardis Hoven, MD, AMA President, wrote a letter to Kathleen Sebelius asking her to further
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GLMS Mission - Promote the science, art and profession of medicine; Protect the integrity of the patient-physician
relationship; Advocate for the health and well-being of the community; Unite physicians regardless
of practice
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