The Arizona Center for Rural Health is looking for experienced and less experienced medication assisted treatment (MAT) providers to participate in the AzMAT Mentors Program. The program is designed to support less experienced MAT providers to increase their capacity to provide MAT services. These are difficult…
The Pima County Medical Society is aware that the practice of medicine and health care have changed. Some of these changes are constant such as new technology, rising costs of providing care as well as receiving care. Other changes are not…
COVID oral antivirals Dear Pima County Medical Providers, COVID-19 is being transmitted at record levels in Pima County and our health care system is under enormous stress to care for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients. Arizona now has access to therapies that can decrease…
Your feedback is needed on an important new law backed by the Arizona Medical Association (ArMA) — the Arizona Department of Insurance and Financial Institutions (DIFI) will be approving two standardized “prior authorization” forms in response to the implementation of…
The Pima County Medical Society General Membership Meeting will be held Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. In order to conduct the meeting safely, it will be held via Zoom. Invitations to the meeting will be sent by request. A…
Coco Victoria Gomez Tirambulo, MPH UA College of Medicine – Tucson MD/PhD Student PCMS student member With the A/C blasting and the murmurs of cheering emanating from Centennial Hall, the surrealness of receiving our white coats became evident. As we…
As part of Arizona Medical Association's ongoing effort to bring you the latest on legislative issues, they’re asking for your help. As you know, the telehealth omnibus bill passed this year by the legislature, HB2454, created the Telehealth Advisory Committee, which…
This piece ran in the July regular newsletter and on the website. It has been updated and ran in the Arizona Daily Star on Saturday, July 31. Please find an excerpt of the updated version below. Ole Thienhaus, MD Psychiatrist…
2021 Legislative Session Summary The First Regular Session of the 55th Legislature was certainly one for the books. The lengthy session was tied for the third longest session on record, stretching to 171 days. Although you might expect that this…
Ole Thienhaus, MD Psychiatrist PCMS President Michael Hamant, MD Family Medicine and Sports Medicine PCMS Board Member and a Past President The Pima County Medical Society is strongly opposed to the Executive Order issued by Gov. Doug Ducey, which prohibits…