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HCMS Physicians’ Hospital Survey

Provide your feedback when the survey is being administered. Review the results to
affiliate yourself with institutions that are aligned with physician priorities.

Practice Settings

Select the practice setting that meets your needs and know your rights.

TMA Webinar: Picking Non-Profit Health
the Practice Right for Corporations
You (NPHC)

Advocacy to Maintain Physician Autonomy

Together, HCMS and TMA represent the majority of Texas physicians, allowing us to have a strong voice
in the Texas Capitol and have significant influence on medical legislation and socioeconomic issues that
affect physicians and their patients.

Business of Medicine (Economic) Advocacy

HCMS has a long history of advocating for our members and their patients as they
struggle to understand and navigate the complex and continually evolving U.S.
healthcare system, which has a myriad of requirements from federal, state, and private
payers. HCMS strives to ease these burdens and prevent unnecessary government
interference in providing efficient, high-quality patient care.

Legislative & Regulatory Advocacy

HCMS Delegation to the TMA – HCMS, the largest county medical society in the US,
makes up 25% of the TMA. Join the HCMS Delegation to the TMA and impact TMA’s
policies and legislative priorities. The work of the Delegation is impactful, leading to
changes in state or federal law. For example, the “gold carding” prior authorization bill
passed by the 2021 Texas Legislature was because of an earlier HCMS resolution
adopted by the TMA House and turned into a legislative priority.

TMA’s legislative priorities are set by its members in collabortion with state specialty
societies, amplifying the voice of specialty societies through the suppport of the entire Texas
House of Medicine.

First Tuesdays at the Capitol - Every session of the Texas Legislature, physicians across
the state travel to Austin and meet with their local legislators in meetings organized
by their county medical societies to discuss legislative priorities. These are great
opportunities for physicians to educate lawmakers about what it means to be a physician
and how the laws passed in Austin affect the practice of medicine.