Chester County Medicine Winter 2021 - 4

Contents

WINTER 2021

Syncope:
Not Just for the
Faint of Heart

OFFICERS 2020
President

Bruce A. Colley, DO
President-Elect
David E. Bobman, MD
Vice President
Mahmoud K. Effat, MD
Secretary
Valerie G. Vilbert, DO
Treasurer
Winslow Murdoch, MD
Past President
Mian A. Jan, MD, FACC
Board Members
Brian K. Abaluck, MD
Norman M. Callahan, DO
Heidar K. Jahromi, MD
John P. Maher, MD
Manjula J. Naik, MD
Richard O. Oyelewu, MD
David A. McKeighan
Executive Director
Linda Harley
Associate Director
Chester County Medical Society
1050 Airport Road
PO Box 5344
West Chester, PA 19380-5344
Website - www.chestercms.org
Email - chestercountymedsoc@gmail.com
Telephone - (610) 357-8531

In Every Issue
6 President's Message
20 The Art of Chester County

- a Growing, But
16 Listeriosis
Often Underrated, Problem

Features
7

AMA Advocacy Update:
26 Mitigating Risk Through Disability
2021 Medicare Final Rule: E/M
Income Insurance
improvements, budget neutrality cuts
to payments
28 Social Isolation and our Mental
Health During the COVID-19
13 The Overdose Epidemic During the
Pandemic

the COVID-19 Pandemic
13 She is a Grieving Mother

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of the Chester County Medical Society
(CCMS). The Chester County Medical
Society's mission has evolved to
represent and serve all physicians of
Chester County and their patients in
order to preserve the doctor-patient
relationship, maintain safe and quality
care, advance the practice of medicine
and enhance the role of medicine and
health care within the community, Chester
County and Pennsylvania.
The opinions expressed in these pages
are those of the individual authors and not
necessarily those of the Chester County
Medical Society. The ad material is for the
information and consideration of the
reader. It does not necessarily represent
an endorsement or recommendation by
the Chester County Medical Society.

30 CMS Announces Historic
Changes to Physician
14 Chester County Health Department

Self-Referral Regulations

Plans For Providing COVID-19

Vaccine to the Community
31 CCMS Out and About
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