Organized Medical Staff Section

The Organized Medical Staff Section is the Section of the AMA that is the advocate, voice and resource for physicians who are members of the medical staffs and other organizations.

What's New: Announcements and Other Information

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Register for the 2012 OMSS Annual Meeting
Registration is now open for the 2012 OMSS Annual Meeting, which will be held June 14-16 in Chicago. Visit the OMSS Annual Meeting webpage for complete meeting details, including a draft schedule and hotel reservation information.

OMSS Representative Quarterly Conference Call summary
A summary of the March 6, 2012, OMSS Representative Quarterly Conference Call is now available. The next OMSS Representative Quarterly Conference Call will be held Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 7:00 p.m. CDT (8:00 EDT, 6:00 MDT, 5:00 PDT). Registration and more information will be available in July.

AMA submits comments on proposed revisions to Medicare CoPs
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed to revise the Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals. The proposed rule seeks a number of changes that threaten the physician-directed practice of medicine and undermine the self-governance of the medical staff and its integral role in ensuring the quality of patient care provided in the hospital setting.

On December 22, the AMA and 81 state and specialty medical societies submitted comments to CMS in strong opposition to the proposed revisions to the medical staff and governing body CoPs. The comments note that the proposed revisions would cause serious harm to patients by diluting the authority of the medical staff to set professional and clinical standards for patient care, and by extracting the governing body from the local setting, rendering it incapable of assessing the acute clinical needs of the hospital‟s patient population.