Membership

The Nueces County Medical Society provides, sponsors or endorses an array of services designed to respond to the personal and professional needs of its members.

Benefits of membership in the Nueces County Medical Society include:

• Information, advice, and  sounding board for physicians
• Continuing Medical Education opportunities
• Medical publications & other communications (Magazine, Directory, Newsletter)
• Public Relation and public awareness events (Annual Health Fair)
• Mediation of patient/physician problems
• Collegial activities (Dinner meetings, public relations projects)
• Liaison with news media and public
• Access to TMA & AMA resources
• Physician referrals
• Mailing labels of NCMS members
• Advertising opportunities
• Political involvement
• Commitment to the greater community

Eligibility Requirements

If you are a physician and are not a member of the Nueces County Medical Society, we would like to extend an invitation for you to join approximately 80% of your Nueces County colleagues and 41,000 physicians throughout Texas in the Texas Medical Association.

To be eligible for membership, individuals must be:

Physician holding the Degree of Doctor of Medicine and/or Doctor of Osteopathy legally

licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the State of Texas who subscribes to the Principles of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association and who lives in or practices medicine in or around Nueces County.
or
House staff physicians who are serving in training programs approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education who are licensed by or hold institutional permits from the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners;
or
Physicians who are military medical officers, employees of governmental entities, or those with academic and administrative appointments in medical schools who are not required to register under the Medical Practice Act of Texas and who are bona fide residents of the State of Texas; and

Physicians otherwise eligible for Association membership who are fully retired from the practice of medicine.

Application Request

For more information on becoming a member contact Sandra Montemayor at 361-884-5442 or email smontemayor@nuecesmedsociety.org.

Regular membership is $832.00, AMA membership is available for $420.00 more

First Year membership is $438.50, AMA membership is available for $315.00 more

Resident membership is $20.00, AMA membership is available for $45.00 more

Building Fund is assessed at $50.00 per year for (7) years or may be paid in a lump sum of $250.00.

Options for all Members

TEXPAC/AMPAC*** $125
BASIC MEMBERSHIP

TEXPAC/AMPAC
300 CLUB*** $300

TMA PHYSICIAN
BENEVOLENT FUND**** $10

PLEASE NOTE: Full-year dues are accepted with application submitted from October through May.  Half-year dues are accepted with applications submitted June through August (new members only).  In Texas, the county medical society and Texas Medical Association (TMA) dues are conjoint; you cannot join either independently.  American Medical Association (AMA) dues are recommended, but not required.

Other member categories are LEAVE OF ABSENCE, HONORARY , LIFE, AND RETIRED.   If you believe that you may qualify for these types or would like more information about them, please contact the Membership Director, Sandra Montemayor at 884-5442 or email smontemayer@nuecesmedsociety.org. 

**While a portion of dues paid may be deductible as ordinary and necessary business expenses for Federal Income Tax purposes, 18% of TMA dues and 28% of AMA dues are not  deductible because they are allocable to lobbying as defined by law. $20 of the TMA dues are for a 1-year subscription to Texas Medicine. 

***Voluntary political contributions to TEXPAC are not shared with AMPAC unless you have added additional amounts specifically designated for AMPAC as indicated above.  Neither the TMA nor the AMA will favor or disadvantage anyone based on the amount of or failure to make contributions to TEXPAC or AMPAC.  Contributions are subject to Federal Election Commission law and regulations.  No portion of any contribution to TEXPAC or AMPAC can be deducted as a business expense of Federal Income Tax purposes.  Federal law requires political committees to report the name, mailing address, occupation, and name of employer for each individual whose contributions in aggregate are in excess of $200.00 in a calendar year.

*****Contributions to the Physicians Benevolent Fund are deductible as charitable contributions for Federal Income Tax purposes.  No contributions or gifts to any of the other entities listed above are deductible as charitable contributions for Federal Income Tax purposes.

DUES ARE DUE AND PAYABLE ON OR BEFORE MARCH 1, OF THE CURRENT YEAR.

Membership Dues

MEMBERSHIP DUES DEADLINE--March 1, 2010

Please remember that physicians whose dues have not been paid by March 31st will not be included in the 2010-2011 pictorial directory. If you have any questions, or would like a duplicate of your dues statement, please call Sandra Montemayor at 884-5442, or email smontemayor@nuecesmedsociety.org.

Credit Cards accepted.  

RPO Information

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