MA Orthopaedic Association Membership Benefits

Your continued membership in the Massachusetts Orthopaedic Association is vital to our collective success to improve the practice of medicine by working on key legislative, regulatory and insurance matters that have a significant impact on our profession.

Your ongoing support will be critical to our mission in 2012. Your continued involvement enables our Association to project a strong, unified voice in state and national issues. The MOA is the ONLY in-state organization that has as its sole objective, the interests of the orthopaedic surgeon. 2012 will be an active year for the MOA with payment reform issues, protecting scope of practice and the ongoing implementation of the national health care reform law.

Your Society will work diligently on behalf of Massachusetts orthopaedic surgeons including:

• Legislative - MOA lobbyist, Ronna Wallace represents the MOA with a unified voice on Beacon Hill. The ongoing session will have many challenges for medicine but the efforts of MOA lobbyist and MOA leadership will make a difference to all orthopaedic surgeons. We will continue to safeguard the practice of medicine and assist the membership.
• Annual Meeting & Risk Management CMEs - Join your colleagues on May 8, 2012 for the MOA Annual Meeting with featured speaker, Joshua Jacobs, MD, AAOS Second Vice President and informative clinical presentations. Earn Risk Management and CMEs.
• Programs for Your Practice - Educational seminars, including a coding workshop for you and your staff to be offered at reduced rates.
• Communicate and update members with the MOA newly revised website, online newsletter, and email alert communications.

The MOA works diligently to be the collective representative for orthopaedists and their practice and we have been able to keep the dues for 2012 at $300.00, which includes admission to the Annual Meeting with CME credits, reduced rates for seminars and workshops, legislative and regulatory representation, and much more. Please complete the form enclosed and don't forget to include your email for timely communications and updates. Please make check payable to the Massachusetts Orthopaedic Association or new this year, log onto www.massortho.org and use the Google checkout for online, secure credit card payment (available after January 15, 2012).

The Massachusetts Orthopaedic Association wishes you and yours a happy and healthy new year.

Warm Regards,

Mark C. Gebhardt, MD
President