2022 KMS board candidates
Candidate for KMS President
Mark Brady, MD is an anesthesiologist in Overland Park, Kansas. Dr. Brady is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Medicine and has been licensed in Kansas since 1992. Dr. Brady was very active in his local county medical society and was appointed to the KMS Board of Trustees as a representative of the Medical Society of Johnson & Wyandotte Counties in 2014, and elected to the position of President-Elect in 2019. Dr. Brady served as President of the Kansas City Medical Society in 2019.
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Registration: KMS Monthly Legislative Updates
While much uncertainty remains regarding the trajectory of the 2021 legislative session—including if and when legislators may be available to meet safely with constituents—we have postponed Advocacy Day. In the meantime, we want to keep KMS members apprised of legislative developments that implicate the practice of medicine in Kansas.
To that end, we are hosting monthly Zoom meetings open to all KMS members to provide updates from KMS Executive Director Rachelle Colombo, along with KMS Legislative Committee Chair Kevin Hoppock, MD.
Registration: KMS Annual Meeting
At this time, we are postponing Advocacy Day. However, the KMS Annual Meeting portion of the event—which is solely for selecting officers from the slate presented by the KMS nominating committee—is still scheduled to take place as planned, but via Zoom. This is a separate registration form for the Annual Meeting only. If you have already registered for Advocacy Day, please also complete this registration form to let us know you plan to add the Annual Meeting as well.
2020 Legislative Bill Tracker
Introduction
The following bills of interest to medicine are being considered by policymakers during the current session of the Kansas Legislature.
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Anesthesiologist Assistants
- Enacts licensure of anesthesiologist assistants (AAs) under the Board of Healing Arts.
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APRN independent practice
- Removes the requirement for a collaborative practice agreement between an APRN and a physician.
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Expedited partner therapy
- Allows for the use of expedited partner therapy to treat sexually transmitted disease.
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Health Care Stabilization Fund
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- Senate Bill 493 (support)
- Amending healthcare stabilization fund coverage requirements and membership on the board of governors and providing for the dissolution of the fund under specified circumstances.
- Senate Bill 350 (support)
- Amending healthcare stabilization fund coverage requirements and membership on the board of governors and providing for the dissolution of the fund under specified circumstances.
- Senate Bill 325 (support)
- Requiring that certain business entities be Kansas corporations for coverage by the healthcare stabilization fund.
- House Bill 2348 (oppose)
- Increases the liability limits for the Health Care Stabilization Fund.
Informed consent: antipsychotic medications
- Requires written informed consent prior to administering antipsychotic medications to an adult care home resident.
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Medicaid expansion
- Expands KanCare, the state's Medicare managed care program, to include individuals earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level.
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Medical marijuana
- Allows the legal use of canibus for medical purposes.
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Naturopathic medicine
- Expands the naturopaths' scope of practice including allowing the prescribing of controlled substances.
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Podiatrists: redefined as "physicians"
- Redefines podiatrists as "physicians."
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2020 Legislative session begins
On January 13
, members of the Kansas Legislature will return to the Statehouse. KMS has spent the last several months preparing for the 2020 session and—as has been true for the last 40 years—we will be at the Capitol every day advocating for you and your patients. This promises to be a busy, complex session and several important health care discussions will be at the forefront.
Key to understanding which issues emerge and advance is the impact of the looming elections this summer and fall. In 2020, the entire legislature must stand for election—40 senators and 125 representatives. Nationally, Kansans will also cast ballots for the U.S. President, Vice President, one U.S. Senator and four U.S. Representatives.
While the primary is not until August, the coming elections will influence the debate and tenor of this session. As issues are introduced, emerge and advance, the KMS Legislative committee comprised of your peers is meeting to review and discuss policies affecting the practice of medicine.
Here’s a primer on three key, health-related issues that will be discussed by lawmakers this session.
New Executive Director takes the reins
The Kansas Medical Society Board of Trustees has selected Rachelle Colombo as the organization’s next Executive Director effective January 1, 2020. Mrs. Colombo had served previously as KMS Director of Government Affairs; she will continue to spearhead the organization’s legislative efforts at the Statehouse.
“Rachelle has been a passionate advocate for KMS and the entire physician community for the past eight years. We look forward to having her continue to serve KMS in this new capacity,” said LaDona Schmidt, MD, KMS President and a Lawrence family physician.
A Wichita native, Ms. Colombo is graduate of Baylor University. She grew up in a medical family–her father, Robert Bingaman, MD is a general surgeon and her sister, Rebecca Green, MD is a family physician; both practice in Wichita. Ms. Colombo and her husband, Jeff, reside in Topeka with their two children, Katie and Max.
Ms. Colombo has a great deal of advocacy experience at the state Capitol and in Kansas politics. Before joining KMS in 2011, she served as Chief of Staff to the Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives.
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Webinar: Health care sharing ministries
The Kansas Medical Society in collaboration with the Kansas Medical Group Management Association will be hosting an educational webinar, Tuesday, September 10 from noon-1pm regarding Health Care Sharing Ministries: Impact on Physician Practices. Our speaker will be Richelle Marting, JD with Forbes Law Group. In this session she will discuss the growing presence of health care sharing ministries as a source of payment and how they affect a physician’s practice. Topics to be covered include:
- Defining health care sharing ministries and sources of rules and requirements;
- Considerations for patient registration;
- Payment considerations, including ministries’ access to payor networks;
- Release of information considerations if the ministry request records.
Registration for this event is required and space is limited. Registration deadline is Friday, September 6. Please use the following link to register for this event.
https://khconline.adobeconnect.com/kms-09102019/event/registration.html
