February 15, 2019 More than one-quarter of physicians (28 percent) report the prior authorization process required by health insurers for...
February 15, 2019 hese resolutions will be considered by CMA’s standing councils and subcommittees, and will be presented to the CMA Boar...
February 13, 2019 CMA is seeking nominations for physicians to serve as at-large delegates and alternates to the AMA House of Delegates. ...
February 13, 2019 DHCS has scheduled an additional PAVE 101 training to ensure users are prepared to begin using the online enrollment pr...
February 06, 2019 Members can call on CMA’s practice management experts for free one-on-one help with contracting, billing and payment pr...
February 05, 2019 The MTUS guidelines are based on the principles of evidence-based medicine and treatment guidelines developed by the Am...
February 04, 2019 CMA has developed a number of resources to help physicians navigate this new law.
February 04, 2019 Cracroft isn't sure why, but he always felt drawn toward medicine, coming from a family of businessfolk and English pro...
February 04, 2019PHC is looking for people interested in California’s health care workforce to serve on the advisory council for PHC’s ne...
February 04, 2019 CMA is working on a legislative fix to ensure no patient goes without the essential medicine and care they need.
February 04, 2019 The proposed Exchange Program Integrity rule would require plans to send two separate monthly bills to each policyholde...
February 04, 2019Physicians are overwhelmed with unnecessary, burdensome regulations that take time and resources away from providing qua...
January 30, 2019 Insurers, including government payors such as Medicare and Medicaid, reimburse only those services or procedures that t...
January 30, 2019 New ID cards containing the new ID number were mailed to all affected members in late December.
January 28, 2019 Contact your legislators today and urge them to take swift action so patients can once again receive the medical treatm...
January 25, 2019 Flawed implementation of a new state law that requires all security prescription forms to have a uniquely serialized ...
January 24, 2019 The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has confirmed that the 2019 CPT/HCPCS updates have been load...
January 24, 2019 The Medi-Cal Provider Enrollment Division will no longer accept paper enrollment forms, effective March 5, 2019.
January 24, 2019 The plan filed requests in late 2018 with the DMHC to transfer its enrollees to other delegated groups and the request ...
January 22, 2019 Smith has been a member of AMA and CMA since she began medical school in August 2013. She is currently serving her seco...
January 22, 2019 In 2018, CMA’s active, dues paying membership grew by 6.3 percent, with a 92.2 percent retention rate.
January 18, 2019 On January 13, 2019, one day before the effective date, the federal court granted the state’s motion for a preliminary ...
January 18, 2019 The California Medical Association (CMA) online health law library contains nearly 5,000 pages of up-to-date legal in...
January 18, 2019 Register for CMA's 45th annual Legislative Advocacy Day on April 24, 2019, at the Sacramento Convention Center!
January 18, 2019 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented new opioid policies for Medicare drug plans effectiv...
January 16, 2019The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has now completed the process of mailing new Medicare cards to bene...
January 14, 2019The new UHC policy—originally scheduled for implementation on Jan. 1—requires prior authorization for advanced imaging p...
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