February 04, 2019 CMA is working on a legislative fix to ensure no patient goes without the essential medicine and care they need.
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 18, 2019 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented new opioid policies for Medicare drug plans effectiv...
January 02, 2019 On January 1, 2019, a new California law took effect that requires all security prescription forms to have a uniquely s...
December 21, 2018 On January 1, 2019, a new California law takes effect that requires all security prescription forms to have a uniquely ...
October 25, 2018 Saturday, October 27, 2018, is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On this day, hundreds of locations throughout ...
October 24, 2018 The California Medical Association (CMA) applauded the enactment of H.R. 6 – a sweeping bipartisan bill that addresses ...
October 02, 2018 To help physicians understand this new mandate, CMA has prepared a document that answers the most commonly asked questi...
September 27, 2018 On August 28, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published an update to the Initial Preventive Physic...
September 17, 2018 The U.S. Senate is expected to vote this week a bipartisan package of over 70 proposals intended to help combat the n...
September 10, 2018 This spring, a coalition led by CM) and CalHIPSO secured a $5 million expenditure for health information exchange (HIE)...
September 04, 2018 The California Board of Pharmacy has launched an online drug take-back tool to help consumers looking for a place to sa...
August 22, 2018 Effective October 2, 2018, physicians must consult California’s prescription drug monitoring database (the Controll...
July 23, 2018 Effective October 2, 2018, physicians must consult California’s prescription drug monitoring database (the Controll...
July 09, 2018 On June 22, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid R...
June 22, 2018 The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued a statewide standing order for naloxone, an antidote medic...
June 05, 2018 The American Medical Association (AMA) issued a new report on Thursday documenting how California’s physician leaders...
May 14, 2018 The California Department of Justice (DOJ) has certified that as of April 2, 2018, the Controlled Substance Utilizati...
March 08, 2018 The California Department of Public Health Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention Initiative is hosting a free, two-part...
March 05, 2018 Assemblymember and emergency physician Joaquin Arambula, M.D. (D-Fresno), has introduced a bill (AB 2384) that would re...
February 07, 2018 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule that would require Medicare Part D plan...
January 11, 2018 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said today that cough and cold medicines containing codeine and hydrocodone...
December 14, 2017 The California Medical Association (CMA) has received numerous calls from physicians whose prescriptions are being turn...
November 13, 2017Five years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a national initiative, the Partnership to ...
October 15, 2017 For more than 40 years, the life-saving opioid overdose antidote naloxone has been used to reverse the effects of opioi...
October 15, 2017 Saturday, October 28, 2017, is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On this day, hundreds of locations throughout ...
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