July 27, 2020 The first of dozens of PPE distribution events around the state began this week, as CMA partnered with its component me...
July 15, 2020 COVID-19 cases are spiking across California, creating shortages in essential testing supplies. Though the state issued...
July 14, 2020 Concerned about the COVID-19 epidemic’s immediate and long-term impacts on mental health, California health officials a...
July 10, 2020 On Tuesday, July 14, 2020, the California Medical Association (CMA) and the California Health and Human Services Agency...
July 07, 2020 CMA urged the Newsom Administration to immediately convene an advisory group to address the COVID-19 outbreak at San Qu...
July 07, 2020 In an effort to ensure California physicians can continue to provide care to patients during the COVID-19 outbreak, the...
July 06, 2020 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) represent a public health crisis that has been, until recently, largely unrecogniz...
July 01, 2020 CMA is sponsoring a bill authored by state Senator Richard Pan, M.D., that will protect California’s public health offi...
June 30, 2020 Starting July 1, 2020, Medi-Cal providers must take a certified training and self-attest to having completed the traini...
June 19, 2020 After seeing the highest daily spike in COVID-19 cases, Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday issued an executive order tha...
June 18, 2020 Wearing face coverings in public slows the spread of COVID-19 and saves lives. Wearing face coverings in public is an i...
June 16, 2020 CMA has added three new COVID-19 webinars to the schedule. These webinars are free to all interested parties as part of...
June 09, 2020 The California Medical Association is deeply disturbed and saddened by unfair attacks on California’s county and city h...
June 04, 2020 CMA is deeply disturbed by the news that some local health officers, many of whom have been working tirelessly over the...
June 03, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on society. As of late May, there have been over 100,000 cases in California an...
May 19, 2020 AMA has published guidance to help ensure physicians and the general public are aware of the limitations and potential ...
April 23, 2020 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a process for allocating approximately $10 billion...
April 20, 2020 The California COVID-19 Testing Task Force has published evaluation criteria for COVID-19 serology screening—both rapid...
April 20, 2020 The California Department of Public Health has released crisis care guidelines to help health care facilities and count...
April 07, 2020 Since the COVID-19 crisis began, CMA has been aggressively lobbying federal and state leaders to ensure physician pract...
April 04, 2020 Governor Newsom issued an executive order that relaxes certain state privacy and security laws for health care provider...
April 03, 2020 CMA submitted a letter to Gov.Newsom urging him to take quick action to ensure that our financially distressed physicia...
April 01, 2020 The Medical Board of California is working closely with DCA to determine what licensing requirement waivers would best ...
April 01, 2020 Gov. Gavin Newsom urged Californians to cover their noses and mouths when going out in public to help stop asymptomatic...
April 01, 2020 Physicians managing patients with opioid use disorder can now prescribe buprenorphine to new or existing patients based...
March 31, 2020 The California Medical Association (CMA) has launched a series of free webinars to guide physicians through some of the...
March 31, 2020 CMS on Monday took a number of steps to equip the health care system with maximum flexibility to respond to the COVID-1...
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