MWMD Newsletter

The SARS-Cov-2 (COVID 19) virus continues to wreak havoc on our lives, our community, and our country. The only silver lining in our misery is that we have plenty of company. The virus, and the world’s response to it, is unprecedented ...

Widely available, accurate and appropriately utilized COVID-19 testing remains one of the keys to successfully responding to the pandemic. On May 21 st, I sent an email to the Alliance regarding testing for COVID-19. The email included the ...

Message from Kurion Thott, MD Chair, Communications & Education The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the major sentinel events of our current time. As many of you likely feel, similar to me, that this has been the longest ...

Fredericksburg Emergency Medical Alliance Benjamin Brown DO MWHC Physicians – Infectious Disease Lalita Chulamokha MD MWHC Physicians Family Medicine Amy Jones DO Jacqueline M Breen DO Mary Washington Hospitalist Sausheen Taylor MD ...

Over the course of the next couple of weeks the Alliance will be starting an effort to proactively catalog the NPs and PAs in our network. While reaching out to your office contacts, we will also take the opportunity to confirm we have a ...

The NGACO model has been extended through December 2021! CMS and the Innovation Center have recognized the important contributions Next Gen ACOs are making to their patient populations, communities, and the move to performance-based risk. ...

Greetings colleagues and salutations! I hope that this newsletter finds you and your loved ones safe and sound, as we work through the COVID-19 event, the likes of which most of us have never experienced. As usual, I have been impressed ...

This almost sounds like an oxymoron as one’s natural tendency is to avoid risk. Taking care of patients is difficult enough. Why put our bottom line at additional risk while doing so (in programs such as MSSP (Medicare Shared Savings ...

Cardiology Associates of Fredericksburg Umer Saleem, MD FEMA Benjamin Brown, MD Mary Washington General Surgery Lee’s Hill Darlene Blanchard, MD Richard Earnhardt, MD Bradford King, MD MWMG Infectious Diseases Lalita Chulamokha, MD ...

Message from Kenneth McDowell, DO Chair, Membership & Operations Greetings Colleagues: The membership and operations committee is the group inside the Alliance who evaluates and recommends to the Board of Managers the financial ...