September 16, 2019 The California Legislature on Friday approved a CMA-sponsored bill to increase patient access through telehealth. The b...
September 16, 2019 On September 9, 2019, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 276 into law, which will prevent fake medical exemptions and r...
September 16, 2019 CMA is hosting a one-hour webinar—Proposition 56 funds: What’s new for FY 19-20 and beyond—on Wednesday, October 16 at ...
September 12, 2019 Anthem Blue Cross recently issued a notice to physicians with an amendment to its Prudent Buyer Plan Participating Phys...
September 12, 2019 As indicated in its September 2019 Network Bulletin , United Healthcare (UHC) will expand the list of surgical proce...
September 11, 2019 The results of this survey will be crucial in helping CMA and our partners effectively advocate for a fair and balanced...
September 10, 2019 CPR’s “Coding Corner” focuses on coding, compliance, and documentation issues relating specifically to physician billin...
September 09, 2019 Health Net recently notified physicians that effective July 1, 2019, it was implementing an additional claims review pr...
September 09, 2019 On June 27, 2019, Governor Newsom signed his first state budget, which included significant new funding for health care...
September 09, 2019 Cigna is the latest payor to announce that it will no longer reimburse consultation services, effective for claims pr...
September 06, 2019 Physicians are reminded that October 1, 2019, marks the effective date of several important Anthem Blue Cross policy ch...
September 06, 2019 CMA urges practices to closely monitor their accounts receivables to ensure that they have been paid properly and to re...
September 05, 2019 The California Health Care, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 (Prop 56) created new revenues dedicated to...
September 04, 2019 CMA President David H. Aizuss, M.D., issued the following statement in response to today's passage of Senate Bill 276 t...
September 03, 2019 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a 1700-page proposed rule for the 2020 Medicare ...
August 29, 2019 Altais, in collaboration with Blue Shield of California, aims to help physicians provide value-based care to California...
August 27, 2019 Physicians for a Healthy California (PHC) is excited to announce the second cycle for the graduate medical education (G...
August 27, 2019 To help monitor adherence to applicable statutes, regulations, and program requirements, the Office of Inspector Genera...
August 22, 2019 Physicians and groups that qualify for MIPS can submit a hardship exception application for one of three reasons.
August 20, 2019 California’s Medicare contractor is hosting a two-day provider enrollment conference in Anaheim on September 18-19, 201...
August 19, 2019 Join CMA on Saturday, October 26, 2019, at the Disneyland Hotel for the 23rd annual Presidential Gala .
August 19, 2019 The rule targets immigrant families, jeopardizes public health and will deter millions of people from receiving critica...
August 19, 2019 The worksheet has been updated to help physicians determine if they have been paid correctly based on the FY 18-19 sup...
August 15, 2019 This is a change from the previous rule requiring placement of those modifiers on the column 2 code.
August 15, 2019 The pre-payment modifier review will focus on claims billed with modifiers 25, 59, 57, LT/RT
August 14, 2019 UHC will now allow physicians to update or modify an existing, approved prior authorization after the date of service. ...
August 14, 2019 The California Medical Association is hosting a webinar with California’s Medicare contractor, Noridian Healthcare So...
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