June 17, 2021
Based on concerns from numerous medical societies and physician organizations, UnitedHealthcare has delayed the rollout...
UnitedHealthcare recently sent a notice to some pediatric and family medicine physician practices offering to increase ...
June 11, 2021
Health plans must continue to cover certain COVID-19 testing for their enrollees pursuant to federal law.
CMS recently announced an additional payment amount for administering in-home COVID-19 vaccinations to Medicare benefic...
June 10, 2021
CMS recently selected Noridian Healthcare Solutions to continue as its Part A and Part B Medicare Administrative Contra...
June 07, 2021
Optum Pay continues to address outstanding issues raised by CMA)and other state and specialty societies with the rollou...
June 02, 2021
DHCS will delay certain payments for two weeks in June so that those claims are paid out of the 2021-2022 fiscal year b...
May 14, 2021
UHC recently implemented changes requiring NPs, PAs and clinical nurse specialists to bill under their own NPI, virtual...
May 12, 2021
UnitedHealthcare recently announced that the Optum Pay basic service would restore access to claim payment and reconc...
May 07, 2021
In 2018, Congress passed a law that established the Community Care Program to ensure veterans receive timely, high-qual...
May 04, 2021
CMA is hosting a webinar that will help pediatricians understand the Information Blocking Rule, how to comply and how t...
April 27, 2021
The sixth and final round of the California Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program opens Wednesday, April 28, 202...
April 20, 2021
The law was signed by President Joe Biden on April 15, 2021, and extended the pause on the Medicare reimbursement cut t...
April 14, 2021
CMA has learned that the contract between Dignity Health California and Anthem Blue Cross is set to terminate for its c...
UnitedHealthcare (UHC) is now requiring physicians to bill eligible telehealth services with place of service (POS) 02 ...
April 13, 2021
To help consumers benefit from these new subsidies, Covered California launched a special open enrollment period starti...
DMHC will be conducting investigations to assess barriers practitioners experience in providing behavioral health servi...
April 08, 2021
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has recently finalized changes to the Medical-Legal Fee Schedu...
April 06, 2021
The federal information blocking rule, issued by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), took effec...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced it had begun recouping COVID-19 accelerated and a...
March 24, 2021
Medi-Cal has raised its payment rate for COVID-19 vaccine administration fee to $40 per dose, regardless of vaccine man...
March 17, 2021
In response to CMA advocacy, UnitedHealthcare has advised that the Optum Pay basic service will restore free access to ...
March 11, 2021
United Healthcare recently announced plans to narrow its provider network for laboratory services beginning July 1, 202...
CMA has received numerous complaints from physicians regarding the recent loss of payment remittance advice access thr...
CMA has received several reports from practices very concerned that commercial payors are shifting the financial risk o...
March 10, 2021
DMHC today published a new “all plan letter” detailing how the new federal guidance affects its emergency regulations o...
March 08, 2021
CMA recently sent a letter to TRPN demanding that it cease engaging in an illegal check scheme in California.
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