10 reasons why you should

become a member of the medical society:

10. Three times a year you get to meet and eat with your colleagues at complimentary SCCMS-sponsored membership dinners.

9. Patient complaints made to the medical society against members are reviewed and mediated by the medical society. Complaints against non-member physicians are referred to the Medical Board of California.

8. Patients throughout the county are exposed to SCCMS members through the medical society’s web site, physician referral service, and membership directory.

7. A $1,000 deductible for members’ administrative defense coverage on their medical malpractice insurance is waived.

6. SCCMS members can educate the public and promote their practice by participating in the medical society’s web site Medical Articles section and/or the Community Health Care Lyceum public speaking group.

5. You deserve to be reimbursed appropriately for the medical services you provide and the medical society is representing your financial interests to both government and commercial health plans.

4. Through targeted communication vehicles, the medical society keeps its members informed of regulatory, practice management, employment, professional, and other issues that impact you and your practice.

3. You save approximately $43,000 each year on your malpractice insurance premiums because SCCMS and CMA fought hard to keep MICRA legislation intact.

2. SCCMS secured a 13% increase in reimbursement to Santa Cruz County physicians from Blue Shield of California (effective July 1, 2001).

...and the number one reason why you should become a SCCMS member...

1. It is the right thing to do. Call today to join or print & mail a membership application.

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