Upcoming AOA Town Hall Meeting Features National Coordinator for HIT NEW
[8/25/2010] - The AOA will host its next Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 2:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (3:30 p.m. New York time). more

CDC Releases 2010-2011 Influenza Vaccination Recommendations NEW
[8/25/2010] - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a letter advising that all individuals age 6 months and older should receive an influenza vaccination. more

SUMMER 2010 NEWSLETTER NEW
[8/20/2010] - To access the NYSOMS summer newsletter, log on to the link below more

NYSOMS Puts on Health Fair to Help Asian Community NEW
[8/19/2010] - On Saturday, Aug. 7, the Asian Community United Society (ACUS), a grassroots community organization based in Brooklyn's Chinatown, held its second annual street fair, and NYSOMS was there!

NYSOMS members passed out health information in English and Chinese, including tips for healthy eating, advice for diabetics and those with high blood pressure, and information on Hepatitis B. more

NYSOMS President Stands up for Patients
[6/14/2010] - Sonia Rivera-Martinez, DO, the president of the New York State Osteopathic Medical Society, recently wrote a memo of support for New York State Assembly Bill 10411, which would protect patients from the "fail-first" approach to prescribing medications used by health insurers to control costs. You can read the entire letter below: more

FTC delays enforcement of Red Flags Rule
[6/2/2010] - At the request of Congress, the FTC has now delayed the enforcement of the "Red Flags" rule until December 31, 2010; the Red Flags rule was scheduled to go into effect on June 1. For more information on the delay, visit the FTC website at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/05/redflags.shtm. more

NYSOMS Opposes Expanding Nurse-Practitioners' Scope of Practice
[5/25/2010] - The New York State Osteopathic Medical Society (NYSOMS)  recently partnered with the AOA  in speaking out against proposed legislation that would increase the scope of practice for nurse-practitioners (NPs) in New York State. 

State Senate Bill 2948A and State Assembly Bill 765A would expand the scope of practice of NPs by repealing the requirement that they have a written collaborative agreement with a physician. NYSOMS send a Memorandum of Opposition to these bills--signed by AOA President Larry Wickless, DO; and NYSOMS President Sonia Rivera-Martinez, DO--to members of the New York State Legislature. You can read that letter here: more

Expand Patient Access to Hearing Aids/Support Fairness in Hearing Aid Dispensing
[2/19/2010] - Please support a change to General Business Law 802 that would strike the restriction on physicians who perform evaluations of hearing loss from deriving a profit from the sales of hearing aids. The current law is anti-consumer, anti-business, and anti-competition. more

Protect the Doctor-Patient Relationship: Support the Health Insurer Code of Conduct
[10/1/2009] - No matter where you fall in the current debate about health care, everyone should agree that a strong doctor-patient relationship is the key to effective, personalized health care. A simple and important step to protect that relationship was taken by the AOA House of Delegates in July, when it passed a resolution to work collaboratively with the health care community in development of the basic tenets of a Health Insurance Code of Conduct, which supports transparency, corporate integrity, and patient safety and welfare. Now there is something everyone can do to make the code a reality. Physicians, patients and others who care about increasing the transparency and effectiveness of care can visit www.insurepatientaccess.org and add their name to the online petition and read the code. more

NYSOMS Pioneers featured by AOA media
[6/10/2009] - The June 17 AOA Daily Report notes that the current issue of The DO Magazine and the AOA's You Tube channel feature the NYSOMS ceremony honoring the New York State Pioneers of Osteopathic Medicine, which was held at the Eastern Regional Osteopathic Convention (EROC) in March. To access all..... more