Below is the most recent CMA news on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
June 28, 2022
DHCS has not yet completed the system and operational changes required to enable successful claims adjudication for administration of the Pfizer-BioN...
June 22, 2022
CDPH recently expanded the definition of “close contact” to better acknowledge that COVID-19 is an airborne disease, rather than one spread by respir...
June 14, 2022
Join us on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, from 12 – 1 p.m. for the latest installment of our monthly Virtual Grand Rounds to learn from experts about the ...
June 09, 2022
COVID-19 vaccines for children under age 5 may be available as soon as the end of June. Vaccine preorders are now available through myCAvax.
June 01, 2022
AMA announced an update to the CPT code set to now include the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months through 5 years old.
May 24, 2022
PHC has extended the deadline for its KidsVaxGrant program – which will award grants of up to $15,000 to support Vaccines for Children (VFC) provider...
May 20, 2022
CDPH is hosting a COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Billing and Reimbursement webinar on Wednesday May 25, 2022,
May 17, 2022
A CMA-sponsored law that took effect on January 1, 2022, requires health plans and insurers to cover COVID-19 testing and vaccine administration with...
May 12, 2022
The deadline for providers to request to submit a late Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Reporting Period 2 report has been extended to May 18, 2022, at 11:...
May 03, 2022
AMA is urging the HHS to allow more time for physicians who accepted federal COVID-19 relief funds to meet the Period 1 Provider Relief Fund reportin...
April 20, 2022
CMA filed a declaration with U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, in support of a County of Los Angeles policy that requires c...
April 19, 2022
DHCS has indicated it will automatically reprocess claims previously submitted. These claims will be automatically reprocessed at the lower of either...
April 11, 2022
In the largest effort of its kind, across the country, Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California) and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will soon...
As previously reported, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has decided to reopen the reporting time for recipients of Period 1 P...
April 06, 2022
Physicians across the country who accepted federal COVID-19 relief funds but failed to meet the Period 1 Provider Relief Fund reporting requirements ...
April 05, 2022
Some providers across the country who accepted federal COVID-19 relief funds but failed to meet reporting requirements are now facing demands to retu...
April 04, 2022
In March 2021, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) submitted a State Plan Amendment (SPA 21-0020) to the Centers for Medicare an...
April 01, 2022
Noting the continued importance of community vaccinators in the efforts to increase vaccine uptake
March 22, 2022
Physicians are reminded that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Provider Relief Fund (PRF) reporting portal is open for provide...
As we enter the spring with our lowest COVID case rates in two years and roll back various recommendations and requirements on masking and gathering,...
March 08, 2022
Effective March 1, 2022, masks are no longer required for unvaccinated individuals in California
CMS recently announced it would be giving physician groups participating in MIPS more time to apply for an extreme and uncontrollable circumstance wa...
On February 24, 2022, HHS announced it was making more than $560 million in additional Provider Relief Fund payments to more than 4,100 providers acr...
February 10, 2022
Please join #ThisIsOurShot physicians, Vicki Chan, M.D., and Alex McDonald, M.D., for a webinar training for health care professionals on using soc...
February 08, 2022
This one-hour webinar— COVID-19 Testing: During and After the Omicron Surge —is free to all interested parties. No CME credit will be given for parti...
January 31, 2022
Individuals working in health care facilities now have until March 1, 2022, to get their shot. If they are not eligible for a booster by March 1, the...
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