October 16, 2025
CMA’s 2025 Legislative Wrap-Up Navigating Change highlights key victories from a challenging session, including new s...
Governor Gavin Newsom has joined 14 other governors in launching the Governors Public Health Alliance, a new multistate...
CMA will convene its 154th annual House of Delegates meeting in Los Angeles this weekend, bringing together more than 8...
CMS has reversed its earlier directive to hold all Medicare claims, now limiting the temporary payment delay to only ce...
Californians with both Medicare and Medi-Cal now have expanded access to integrated “Medi-Medi Plans” in 29 additional ...
DHCS is moving forward with a new round of Medi-Cal Rx policy changes that take effect January 1, 2026. The updates—out...
October 13, 2025
Governor Gavin Newsom today signed Assembly Bill 489, a landmark bill that will protect patients from AI systems that m...
October 09, 2025
Astrana Health’s acquisition of Prospect Health became effective July 1, 2025, transferring provider contracts and oper...
October 07, 2025
CMA announced today that Governor Gavin Newsom signed a CMA-sponsored bill, Senate Bill 351, a critical piece of legisl...
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law Senate Bill 306, a CMA-sponsored bill that delivers critical reforms to the p...
This session will provide updates on the latest developments in vaccines and immunization policy, the role of public he...
October 02, 2025
The deadline to apply for the 2025–26 CalMedForce and CalMedForce+ grant cycle is October 8, 2025, at 7 p.m. PT. With u...
Prop. 35 implementation is finally beginning in four areas: reproductive health, GME residency positions, emergency dep...
Gov. Newsom has signed a package of bills to expand reproductive health protections, safeguard patient privacy, and shi...
While Medicare and Medicaid payments will continue during the federal government shutdown, important programs expired o...
October 01, 2025
The California Board of Pharmacy’s final compounding regulations explicitly exempt physicians and other non-pharmacy pr...
Cigna has agreed to pause implementation of its new automatic downcoding policy pending review by DMHC, following CMA’s...
September 29, 2025
HHS has released updated security risk assessment tool, designed to help small and medium-sized practices comply with H...
September 25, 2025
Unless Congress acts before Sept. 30, 2025, key Medicare telehealth flexibilities will expire, sharply limiting patient...
September 24, 2025
A federal antitrust lawsuit against MultiPlan and several major insurers is moving forward, alleging a price-fixing sch...
A federal judge has rejected a constitutional challenge to California’s Truth in Advertising law, confirming that only ...
September 18, 2025
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through Nov. 21, 2025, a...
CMA is now accepting early testimony on this year's major issue in advance of the 2025 CMA
Gov. Newsom this week signed AB 144, which includes provisions strongly supported by CMA that will protect Californians...
CMA has urged the U.S. Dept. of Education to abandon a proposed rule that could disqualify nonprofit hospitals that pro...
CMA has joined a sweeping federal antitrust lawsuit against MultiPlan (now Claritev) and major insurers including Unite...
Following the signing of Assembly Bill 144 – which provides important safeguards to keep Californians safe and healthy ...
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