February 04, 2019Physicians are overwhelmed with unnecessary, burdensome regulations that take time and resources away from providing qua...
September 10, 2018 This spring, a coalition led by CM) and CalHIPSO secured a $5 million expenditure for health information exchange (HIE)...
July 26, 2018 Paul Markovich, president and CEO of Blue Shield California, on Friday addressed the California Medical Association’s (...
May 31, 2018 Health care providers diagnosing or providing treatment to Parkinson’s disease patients will be required to report each...
May 07, 2018 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is renaming both the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Progra...
March 02, 2018 Over the past few months, the California Medical Association (CMA) has received several calls from practices who had re...
February 05, 2018 California physicians are overwhelmed with unnecessary, burdensome regulations that take time and resources away from p...
October 01, 2017 CPR’s “Coding Corner” focuses on coding, compliance and documentation issues relating specifically to physician billin...
September 04, 2017 California recently passed legislation that requires electronic reporting of cancer pathology results to the Californ...
May 11, 2017The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has extended the attestation deadline for the Medi-Cal electron...
March 16, 2017 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it is now accepting hardship exceptions from the m...
March 02, 2017 The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has announced that it will extend the deadline for Medi-Cal me...
February 21, 2017 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Monday announced that physicians would have two additional weeks ...
December 14, 2016 In the Anthem Blue Cross December Professional Network Update , the insurer published a reminder about how it is worki...
October 24, 2016 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently released updated guidance on the...
October 02, 2016The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has updated the Security Risk Assessment (SRA) tool, which is des...
September 28, 2016 A new survey by the American Medical Association (AMA) found that while the majority of physicians are enthusiastic a...
September 16, 2016 The California Medical Association (CMA) and the American Medical Association (AMA) are fighting a provision in the Nat...
September 01, 2016 The Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program provides funding to Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California) pro...
August 01, 2016The changes will go into effect on October 1, 2016, with the exception of policies for Multiple Diagnostic Ophthalmology...
June 10, 2016 The American Medical Association (AMA) and 36 specialty medical associations urged the Obama Administration to rethink ...
June 07, 2016 Effective July 1, United Healthcare (UHC) will expand its Clinical Data Submission Protocol to include Medicaid and com...
March 07, 2016 The nation's top health care information technology (IT) companies, the top five largest private health systems and mor...
March 02, 2016Effective January 1, 2016, Anthem Blue Cross is requiring that all submission of patient medical records indicate the c...
January 29, 2016 In mid-December, Congress adopted a last-minute bill that gives CMS the authority to grant a blanket exemption for all ...
December 22, 2015 Last week, Congress adopted a last-minute bill that allows the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the aut...
December 08, 2015 The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) announced yesterday that after December 14, 2015, it may be re...
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