May 20, 2025
As announced in its May 2025 Network News, UnitedHealthcare has a new mailing address for contract notices
May 19, 2025
Effective April 30, Molina updated its refund processing to reference the patient control number instead of internal c...
May 16, 2025
Governor Newsom’s revised budget proposal diverts funding from voter-approved Prop 35 and Prop 56 health care funds to...
May 15, 2025
More than a year after the Change Healthcare cyberattack, physician practices are still facing timely filing denials an...
CMA is urging physicians to join a nationwide texting campaign to speak out against these catastrophic cuts.
May 14, 2025
The CMA Governance Technical Advisory Committee has released a new proposal to change the business of the House of Dele...
In response to the Governor’s May Revision to the 2025-26 state budget, CMA President Shannon Udovic-Constant, M.D., is...
May 13, 2025
CMA is urging Congress to reject a federal bill that would impose more than $625 billion in Medicaid cuts—threatening c...
May 12, 2025
CMA President Shannon Udovic-Constant, M.D., issued the following statement regarding House Republicans’ proposed cuts ...
May 08, 2025
House Republicans have proposed federal student loan changes that would cap undergraduate borrowing at $50,000 and medi...
May 06, 2025
Brown & Toland has delayed its planned May 1 reimbursement cuts for physician-administered specialty drugs until July 1...
May 01, 2025
CMS finalized 2026 Medicare Advantage and Part D policies, boosting plan payments by 5% and adopting modest reforms—whi...
AMA is urging the Trump administration to address delays in income-driven repayment applications and protect the Public...
April 30, 2025
The U.S. Defense Health Agency has for a second time extended the temporary waiver of certain authorization and referra...
April 29, 2025
CMA is seeking recommendations for physicians who are interested in and willing to serve on its standing Councils and S...
April 28, 2025
CMA's Prioritizing Patients, Empowering Physicians legislative package to streamline prior authorization advanced out o...
April 24, 2025
A bill sponsored by the California Medical Association to strengthen the state’s ban on the corporate practice of medic...
April 22, 2025
Independent practices now have a powerful new ally: MedWay – a comprehensive, affordable administrative...
April 17, 2025
The future of health equity is in doubt, as federal turmoil spreads across the nation. There's no doubt that the headli...
April 16, 2025
California has officially taken the first step in implementing Prop. 35, the voter-approved initiative to boost Medi-Ca...
CMA recently hosted its 51st annual lobby day, with and more than 350 physicians, medical students and residents.
California physician practices with 1–4 employees must register for CalSavers by Jan.1, 2026, if they do not already of...
April 15, 2025
DHCS recently announced it would no longer be reimbursing COVID-19 vaccine-only encounters provided by FQHCs, Rural Hea...
April 10, 2025
CMA VP of HIT David Ford recently appeared on Healthcare IT Today’s CIO Podcast to preview CMA’s upcoming HIT Summit an...
CMA has launched Physicians for Medicaid, a new campaign to help organize physicians from across the country in the fig...
The president of California Medical Association (CMA), state legislators and dozens of physicians unveiled the Prioriti...
April 08, 2025
Medi-Cal Rx will reinstate prior authorization requirements for all continuation of therapy
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