Welcome to the Galveston County Medical Society

For practice opportunities, click on "advertising" and scroll down to "announcements." 

 UTMB Department of Family Medicine in search of Assistant Professor. Click here for more details.

TMA Sees Alarming Drop in Physician Acceptance of Medicaid, Medicare Patients. Click here for news release and link to the survey.   

Setting the Record Straight on Doctor Pay go to Me and My Doctor  

TMA's document, "Affordable Care Act:  Find What's Missing, Keep What Works, Fix What's Broken." More  

TMA Knowledge Center can answer your questions!   The Texas Medical Association Knowledge Center will help answer legal questions, as well as payments, coding and billing questions about TMA seminars, and more.  For Knowledge Center assistance, emailknowledge@texmed.orgor call 800-880-7955.More 

Medicare Physicians: Manage your enrollment through the Internet-based Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS).More   Medical enrollment, applications, options, etc. More 

UnitedHealth Group UCR Settlement: The AMA has settled with UnitedHealth Group regarding out of network usual and customary payments to physicians. The AMA has launched a new online resource that will help physicians file claims in the record-breaking $350 millionsettlement.More 

We value your membership in GCMS and the Texas Medical Association. If you need help or have a question, please call the GCMS office, 409-935-3000, or e-mail GalvestonCMS@gmail.com. 

If you wish to apply for membership online, go to the TMA Web site, www.texmed.org, and click on "Join."