The Southern California Physician, January, 2002

Medical Society News & Information
January 2002

CMA On-Call: Reporting Requirements, Elder and Dependent Abuse, Pain Management
CMA's information on-demand service, CMA ON-CALL, is a very valuable benefit of your SBCMS/CMA membership. The documents are prepared and updated regularly by CMA's legal department. To request an index or document by fax, call (800) 592-4CMA or online at 222.cmanet.org.

There is currently a heightened liability risk in the areas of elder abuse and pain management. CMA has addressed this issue in a recent memorandum on Elder Abuse. For a copy, call SBCMS at (909) 825-6526. Also, make sure that you know the latest laws on intractable pain management and the Patient Self-Determination Act. ON-CALL documents #0513 and #1412 address these subjects.

To protect the public from the spread of infections, contagious and communicable diseases, physicians are required by law to report such diseases to the local health officer. Order CMA ON-CALL document #1506, which addresses reporting requirements. For more information on the requirements applicable to non-communicable diseases, documents #1501, "Cancer Cases: Reporting Requirements;" #1527, "Neonatal and Pediatric Diseases"; #1525 "Epilepsy/Lapses of Consciousness"; and #1528, "Occupational Illness and Injury" are available.

New AMA EVP Announced
The AMA named Michael D. Maves, MD, MBA, as its new executive vice president and chief executive officer. Dr. Maves will assume leadership of the organization on January 15, 2002. He is a clinically trained and board-certified otolaryngologist,

Dr. Maves, 53, brings extensive medical and association management experience to his new AMA post. He served as executive vice president of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Inc. (AAO-HNS) from 1994-99. Most recently, he headed the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) in Washington, D.C.

An active participant in organized medicine throughout his professional career, Dr. Maves has served as a specialty society representative and alternate delegate to the AMA House of Delegates as well as a governor of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Maves was a member of the initial AMA Resource-Based Relative Value Scale Update Committee and has testified before Congress, the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS, formerly HCFA) and the Food and Drug Administration. In addition, he is a consultant to the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. He currently co-chairs the medical/surgical panel of the CMS Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee
and serves on its executive committee.

Presently, he is adjunct professor at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and at the
Georgetown University Medical Center, where he still practices part time. Raised in Ohio, Dr. Maves received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toledo and his medical degree from The Ohio State University. He received his MBA from the University of Iowa College of Business Administration.

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