MOCEP Policy on CME Requirements

MOCEP Policy on Specific CME Requirements The Missouri College of Emergency Physicians (MOCEP) believes that board certification or board eligible status by the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) or the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM)...

Prescription Drug Monitoring

Missouri is the only state in the nation to not pass some form of a prescription drug monitoring bill. There have been several proposals, but MOCEP continues to push for the following critical pieces. First, include at a minimum controlled substances (schedule II...

Medicaid Expansion

The House and Senate have conducted interim committees the past without much changing in the state. Transformation of the existing program has become a focus of the committees. Expansion is not a primary goal at the moment, but if they can achieve...

Medical Malpractice Reform

In 2005, MOCEP was part of a coalition that passed a bill lowering caps from $650,000 to $350,000, along with other tort reform measures. Unfortunately, the Missouri State Supreme Court, in the Watts decision, eliminated the non economic medical malpractice caps entirely (except for...