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FOURTH QUARTER 2019 JOURNAL OF THE NEW KANSAS CITY MEDICAL SOCIETY annual meeting 2019 highlights Recent HHS Official Speaks on Pain Management Charles B. Wheeler, Jr., MD, JD, Honored Scenes from the 2019 Annual Meeting advocacy Physicians Serving in State Government Advocacy Tips Ten Things You Can Do Our Commitments to You. • Highest level of customer service and expert care • Doctors will always be informed of the patient's status & progress • Quick results and happy patients Blue ValleyFeel Physical Better. 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O’Dell, MD, Editor, Kansas City Medicine 16 An Outstanding Educator of Physicians and the speaking Community friend of medicine award: patrick b. “rusty” ryan, pharmd Editorially 05 Suprise Medical Bills By Jim Braibish, Kansas City Medicine insurance plans’ narrow provider networks and the search for legislative solutions 18 Taking on Leadership Roles at Hospital and With KCMS By Charles W. Van Way, III, MD, Editor Emeritus, Kansas City Medicine rising star award: carole e. freiberger-o’keefe, do 19 Stepping Up to Provide Care to a Patient in Need 2019 kcms patient & community advocate award: leland graves, iii, md Annual Meeting & peter j. dipasco, md 08 Speakers, Awards Highlight 2019 Annual Meeting 20 Building Independent Practice Organizations Individualized, Multidisciplinary Approach to Pain 09 innovation award: nathan d. granger, md, mba Management Is Needed keynote address by vanila m. singh, md, macm 21 Student-Run Clinic Cares for Underserved Population community service award: jaydoc free clinic 10 Scenes from the 2019 Annual Meeting 22 Contributing to Patient Care, Teaching and Research Thank You to Annual Meeting Sponsors 13 in Cardiology exemplary leadership award: james l. vacek, md, ms Advocacy 24 Bringing the Physician Voice to State Elected Office profiles of former gov. jeff colyer, md; state sen. barbara bollier, md; and state rep. jonathan patterson, md By Jim Braibish, Kansas City Medicine 28 Advocacy Tips Presented at “Medicine’s Muscle” 29 Ten Things You Can Do to Get Involved That Don’t Require Money By State Rep. Jonathan Patterson, MD ON THE COVER: Vanila Singh, MD, MACM, of Stanford University and the chair of a federal multi‐agency task force on pain management, speaks to the 2019 Kansas City Medical Society Annual Meeting. (photo by Mike Curtis) kansas city medicine 1 Vol. V, No. 4 Fourth Quarter 2019 Official publication of the new Kansas City Medical Society www.kcmedicine.org Kansas City Medicine (ISSN 2473-327X) (USPS 227-680) is published quarterly by the Kansas City Medical Society, 300 E. 39th St., Kansas City, MO 64111, phone (816) 315-0164. Sub- scription price $10.00 per year to physicians and $50.00 per year to all others. Periodicals postage paid at Kansas City, MO, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas City Medical Society, 300 E. 39th St., Kansas Editor City, MO 64111. Copyright © 2019 Kansas City Medical Society. Michael L. O’Dell, MD Editor Emeritus Charles W. Van Way, III, MD The Kansas City Medical Society in no way endorses opinions or statements contained in this publication except those that Associate Editors accurately reflect official action of the Society. Acceptance of ad- John C. Hagan, III, MD vertising in this publication in no way constitutes professional John Sheldon, MD approval or endorsement of products or services which may be Karl Stark, MD advertised. The Kansas City Medical Society reserves the right to reject any advertising material submitted for publication. Managing Editor James Braibish All communication should be sent to: Kansas City Medical Soci- ety, 300 E. 39th St., Kansas City, MO 64111, or 10000 Marshall Medical Society Staff Dr., Lenexa, KS 66215. Angela Broderick-Bedell, CAE, Executive Director Emily Whalen, Director, Membership & Special Events Karole Bradford, Foundation Chief Program Officer Send all advertising inquiries to: Angela Broderick-Bedell [email protected] The New Kansas City Medical Society Board of Directors 2019 Mark Brady, MD, President Joshua Mammen, MD, PhD, Past President John Hagan, III, MD, Chair, Governance Betty Drees, MD, President-Elect Scott Kujath, MD, Chair, Patient Advocacy Carole Freiberger-O’Keefe, DO, Secretary Jim Wetzel, MD, Chair, Strategic Planning Gregory Unruh, MD, Treasurer Michael O’Dell, MD, Editor, Kansas City Medicine Chris Dixon, MD, At Large Sheila McGreevy, MD, At Large Joseph Reuben, MD, At Large Stephen Salanski, MD, At Large from the Editor Recognition and Advocacy saluting the recipients of the medical society’s 2019 awards and those who advocate for medicine By Michael L. O’Dell, MD, MSHA, FAAFP, Editor, Kansas City Medicine At our September 26 Kansas City than to recognize. Our awardees seemed present. Would you also prefer to speak for Medical Society Annual Meeting, we preternatural in their assumption of the yourself in choosing your professional life’s came together to recognize our honorees behaviors of humility. direction? Most likely that answer is yes and support our advocates. We celebrated Another complex behavior extolled as well, but doing so would substantially some of the best in medicine and in the description of our honorees is that interfere with the time needed for that encouraged those who support our work. of compassion. Our senses recognize same professional life. compassion in a warm touch and a soft We, physicians, are few, and our care RECOGNITION voice. But more importantly, it is the remains in high demand. There is a need One of the enduring questions of pattern of elevating the care of another to be present with our patients, which cognition is, How do we as humans limits our time available to advocate for recognize each other? our profession. Given this, we rely on our And further, what is our response What we saw in our friends to promote us. to recognition? Beyond personal Thankfully, we have several friends identification, just what did we recognize honorees are the working on our behalf. Recognized in in our honorees for this year? attributes of health this issue of Kansas City Medicine are Recognition is mostly a sensory a special group of physicians who give experience, bolstered by the expectation care ... a person generously of their time to serve as elected of a set of patterns associated with visibly with others in representatives in our state legislatures individuals and events. Given this and executive branch offices. Besides their sensory experience, what sort of sensory their time of need. work, we are grateful to our state medical stimulation precipitated identifying our associations that testify and lobby on our awardees? And what patterns did we behalf routinely. We also appreciate our detect? to such importance as to be described as practicing colleagues who support these What we saw in our honorees are the selfless. We did not hear tales of personal efforts. attributes of health care. Someone who is struggles; only stories of the repeated help As the start of the 2020 legislative with others. A person visibly with others given to others came to light. sessions nears, I encourage you to become in their time of need. Someone who is seen We celebrated our awardees’ acts as informed about the issues and join in by those in need as essential to be near. seen by those in need. We heard about being an advocate for medicine. Beyond a given moment, history let us them from the voices of patients. We � Michael O’Dell, MD, MSHA, FAAFP, is chair know that our honorees were repeatedly, learned from their touching presence, of the Department of Community and Family seemingly always, seen with those in need. memorably lessening suffering. We honor Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas What we heard from our honored was and recognize them to the fullest sense. City School of Medicine, and associate chief often very little. We heard for the many medical officer for the Truman Medical Centers Lakewood campus. He can be reached at mi- others whose experiences extolled their ADVOCACY chael.o’[email protected]. appreciation of the awardees. A pattern of Who would you choose to select the healing experiences emerged from those perfect gift for you? Would it be a stranger many in the honorees’ presences over or a friend, or would you choose it? time.