Register today for Monday’s webinar with Ashok Rai, MD, CEO, Prevea Health

Ashok Rai, MD, CEO, Prevea Health

Join Prevea Health’s CEO Ashok Rai, MD, and WisMed’s Chief Policy and Advocacy Officer, Mark Grapentine, JD, for a special webinar, COVID-19 Vaccination: The Prevea Model on Monday, August 16, from 12:30 - 1 p.m. During this webinar, Doctor Rai will share Prevea Health’s strategy of “every patient, every time” to get more Wisconsinites vaccinated against COVID-19.

This webinar is open to members and nonmembers and is free to attend, but registration is required.

Please email membership@wismed.org with any questions.

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WisMed Members participating in clinician panel at OnRamp Healthcare Conference

WisMed Members Wendy Molaska, MD, and Tim Bartholow, MD

How to Convert Good Ideas into Startups, a clinician panel to be held as part of OnRamp Healthcare Conference will include WisMed Members Wendy Molaska, MD, and Tim Bartholow, MD. The panelists will share stories of clinicians who have either started their own practice, launched a tech startup or gotten involved in the startup ecosystem. This conversation will inspire entrepreneurship and share how clinicians can further make an impact on their communities and in the healthcare industry.

OnRamp Healthcare Conference will be held virtually on August 19, 2021. WisMed Members can register for just $50 with discount code WMSORHC2021.

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Advocacy updates from Chief Policy and Advocacy Officer Mark Grapentine, JD – WisMed’s Friday Report starts tomorrow

Mark Grapentine, JD

The Wisconsin Medical Society's (WisMed) members-only advocacy update series starts tomorrow – Friday, August 13. WisMed’s Friday Report will give an up-to-the-minute update on the latest health care policy up for debate in Madison, plus a bit of an insider look into politics and policy.

Hosted by WisMed’s Chief Policy and Advocacy Officer, Mark Grapentine, JD, these live webinars will occur the second Friday of each month from 12:15 – 12:45 p.m. via Zoom.

Register for one, some or all of the Friday Report sessions here. Registration and membership in the Society are required to attend. Please email membership@wismed.org with any questions.

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WisMed Assure adds new employee benefits services

The WisMed Assure team works to create and offer the best employee benefits insurance solutions and services to the health care companies of Wisconsin. Over the past several years, they have added multiple services and solutions to support their clients. 

WisMed Assure has made two new additions to the growing toolbox of services and solutions that are offered at no cost to their employee benefits clients.

HR OnDemand – Fine Point Consulting

Fine Point Consulting enables employer leaders to receive consultations from a certified HR professional. It’s an easy-to-use email service; send in your questions about recruitment processes, benefits administration, maintaining already existing processes, checklists and more, and the HR professionals at Fine Point send you the answers you need.

Clients also receive a 15% discount on higher levels of consultation as needed. FinePoint HR regularly provides consultative services related to:

• Recruitment strategy and process optimization
• Applicant Tracking System (ATS) integration
• Strategic benefits solutions
• Human Resource Information System (HRIS) integration
• Addressing specific employee relations issues including discrimination complaints, labor relations charges and wage and hour complaints
• Investigating sensitive workplace misconduct
• Compensation analysis
• Handbook development
• Policy development

COBRA Administrative Services Tool – Employee Benefits Corporation (EBC)

WisMed Assure has secured a contract with Employee Benefits Corporation (EBC) to deliver a COBRA admin tool their clients can use for processing and staying compliant with COBRA requirements. And, with the impact of American Rescue Plan Act, this service couldn’t have come about at a better time!

WisMed Assure is very proud to continue to offer more to their clients and hopes you find these services useful.

Please contact Chris Noffke, GBDS, at chris.noffke@wismedassure.org or 608.442.3734 for additional information or if you have an issue you don’t know how to solve. 

Originally posted on July 9, 2021 in FYI: For Your Insurance

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CME to meet the Opioid Prescribing Guideline

Physicians with a DEA number need to complete two CME credits for the MEB’s Responsible Opioid Prescribing Requirement by December 31, 2021. The Wisconsin Medical Society offers a catalogue of on-demand webinars approved by the MEB to meet the Opioid Prescribing Guideline, required for the 2020-2021 CME licensure cycle.

The newest of these courses is How to Talk to Patients About Opioids presented by Michael McNett, MD. This webinar is intended to help guide clinicians in appropriate and accurate communications with their patients about opioids. This CME also aims to help physicians manage interactions with patients who become manipulative or adversarial when not prescribed the opioids they want and optimize the chances of a positive outcome without sacrificing quality patient care.

Check out the opioid series here. All courses have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ and Maintenance of Certification Part II points for certain specialties. Interested in having in-person education? Email education@wismed.org for details.

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