November 12, 2019 Once again, it’s time for physicians to decide if they want to make changes to their Medicare participation status . P...
November 11, 2019 To learn more about the supplemental payments, including how to ensure you’re getting your fair share, CMA is hosting a...
November 08, 2019 Governor Gavin Newsom has declared state of emergencies in response to the wildfires across California that have destro...
November 08, 2019 The American Medical Association has released the CPT ® 2020 code set, which will be effective Jan. 1, 2020. Among the...
November 05, 2019 The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) recently updated the list of diseases and conditions that must be rep...
November 05, 2019 A new survey of California physicians illustrates serious unintended consequences from California’s surprise billing ...
November 01, 2019 The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published Medicare’s influenza vaccine payment allowance...
October 30, 2019 Physicians are reminded that the transition period to the new Medicare Beneficiary Identification (MBI) numbers will en...
October 10, 2019 The California Medical Association (CMA) has learned that Anthem Blue Cross has terminated its contract with Hill Physi...
October 08, 2019 The California Medical Association’s (CMA) Center for Economic Services is publishing updated profiles on each of the m...
October 08, 2019 On Sept. 1, 2019, Anthem Blue Cross posted news about a claim editing update to remove conflicts between Excludes1 and ...
October 01, 2019 The California Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS) transition of all fiscal intermediary duties from Conduent to...
September 24, 2019 The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has contracted with DXC Technology who will assume all fiscal ...
September 16, 2019 CMA is hosting a one-hour webinar—Proposition 56 funds: What’s new for FY 19-20 and beyond—on Wednesday, December 4 at ...
September 12, 2019 Anthem Blue Cross recently issued a notice to physicians with an amendment to its Prudent Buyer Plan Participating Phys...
September 12, 2019 As indicated in its September 2019 Network Bulletin , United Healthcare (UHC) will expand the list of surgical proce...
September 10, 2019 CPR’s “Coding Corner” focuses on coding, compliance, and documentation issues relating specifically to physician billin...
September 09, 2019 Health Net recently notified physicians that effective July 1, 2019, it was implementing an additional claims review pr...
September 09, 2019 On June 27, 2019, Governor Newsom signed his first state budget, which included significant new funding for health care...
September 09, 2019 Cigna is the latest payor to announce that it will no longer reimburse consultation services, effective for claims pr...
September 06, 2019 Physicians are reminded that October 1, 2019, marks the effective date of several important Anthem Blue Cross policy ch...
September 06, 2019 CMA urges practices to closely monitor their accounts receivables to ensure that they have been paid properly and to re...
September 05, 2019 The California Health Care, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 (Prop 56) created new revenues dedicated to...
August 22, 2019 Physicians and groups that qualify for MIPS can submit a hardship exception application for one of three reasons.
August 20, 2019 California’s Medicare contractor is hosting a two-day provider enrollment conference in Anaheim on September 18-19, 201...
August 19, 2019 The worksheet has been updated to help physicians determine if they have been paid correctly based on the FY 18-19 sup...
August 15, 2019 This is a change from the previous rule requiring placement of those modifiers on the column 2 code.
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