April 04, 2020 Governor Newsom issued an executive order that relaxes certain state privacy and security laws for health care provider...
August 03, 2018 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently completed mailing new Medicare ID cards to California ben...
March 02, 2018 Over the past few months, the California Medical Association (CMA) has received several calls from practices who had re...
January 08, 2018 California regulations regarding retention of medical records in a physician’s office are a perennial hot topic in the ...
August 03, 2017 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has launched a new training module for p...
April 06, 2017 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will remove social security numbers (SSNs) from all Medicare cards b...
November 03, 2016 To protect patient privacy, develop a written policy on camera and smartphone use in the office.
October 24, 2016 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently released updated guidance on the...
February 22, 2016 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released two new fact sheets and an accompanying blog serie...
January 11, 2016Last week, the Obama Administration unveiled a number of executive actions to address gun violence in the United States,...
September 02, 2014 The California Medical Association (CMA), joined by the Litigation Center of the American Medical Association (AMA) and...
July 23, 2014 The Court of Appeal issued a published opinion this week in the case of Sutter Health v. Superior Court limiting the ap...
July 14, 2014 The Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) has notified physicians of a data breach that disclosed the social securit...
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