The Office of Management and Budget recently approved changes to the CMS 588, Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Authorization Agreement. The revised EFT agreement is available on the CMS Forms List.As of January 1, 2014, new EFT authorization agreements submitted must be on the new form. Submissions on the old forms will be returned to the applicant.
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May 20, 2022
The CMA Center for Economic Services is thrilled to welcome Kari Perry-Ailstock as the new Director of Medi-Cal Managed...
CDPH is hosting a COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Billing and Reimbursement webinar on Wednesday May 25, 2022,
May 19, 2022
As part of the landmark agreement to modernize MICRA, proponents of the so-called Fairness for Injured Patients Act tod...
May 17, 2022
On Friday, May 13, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom released his revised budget proposal for the 2022-23 fiscal year. The $3...
AB 35 (MICRA modernization legislation) passed its final hurdle in the legislature on May 12, when it passed unanimousl...
View CMA's June 2022 Statewide Primary Election Physician Voter Guide, which includes endorsements for two CMA-supporte...
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, an official advisor to HHS, has put together a short survey to gauge how...
A CMA-sponsored law that took effect on January 1, 2022, requires health plans and insurers to cover COVID-19 testing a...
May 16, 2022
Today, we learned that one of our own – John Cheng, M.D. – took heroic measures to stop another act of senseless gun vi...
May 13, 2022
CMA President Robert E. Wailes, M.D., issued the following statement in response to Gov. Gavin Newsom's May Budget Rev...
May 12, 2022
The deadline for providers to request to submit a late Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Reporting Period 2 report has been ex...
CMA President Robert E. Wailes, M.D., issued the following statement on the California Assembly's unanimous passage of ...
May 11, 2022
CMA is hosting a webinar with partner organization Aledade to address any issues providers may have about joining an AC...
The CMA Board of Trustees is seeking recommendations for physicians who are interested in and willing to serve on its s...
May 09, 2022
The program unjustly excludes certain physicians in California and Texas, harming patient access to care in already und...
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...
The modernized framework, which unanimously passed out of the committee, will ensure that health care is accessible and...
PHC and University of California Health are extending their research on the well-being of California women physicians t...
We are gravely concerned that the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to overturn the protections offered by Roe v. Wade ...
The Medical Board of California recently phased out plastic medical license cards. In lieu of the old plastic cards, ph...
May 02, 2022
Join us on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, from 12 – 1 p.m. for the latest installment of our monthly Virtual Grand Rounds to le...
Every year, CMA honors inspirational physician members during its annual House of Delegates in October. CMA is now acce...
HHS released a report on Thursday that found every year Medicare managed care organizations inappropriately deny medica...
April 28, 2022
To support the citizens of Ukraine, millions of whom have been forcibly displaced, CMA and its foundation are raising f...
CDPH is urging health care providers to expand testing for gonorrhea and Disseminated Gonococcal Infection (DGI) follow...
April 20, 2022
More physicians are taking the leap into the world of value-based care, but not all are succeeding. The complexities of...
CMA filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in a case that will shape ...
CMA filed a declaration with U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, in support of a County of Los ...
April 19, 2022
On Friday, April 15, 2022, CMS opened the long-awaited federal Independent Dispute Resolution process called for unde...
DHCS has indicated it will automatically reprocess claims previously submitted. These claims will be automatically repr...
April 18, 2022
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April 13, 2022
Because of the new hike in Omicron subvariant BA.2 cases, HHS today extended the COVID-19 public health emergency dete...
April 11, 2022
In the largest effort of its kind, across the country, Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California) and the Children’s Health Insu...
As previously reported, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has decided to reopen the reporting tim...
RCMA is hosting the 34th Annual Virtual Conference on Physicians’ Well-Being on Friday, July 15, 2022, from 8 a.m. to 1...
CMA is pleased to announce that Senior VP of Government Relations and Political Operations Janus Norman will become CCT...
April 06, 2022
Physicians across the country who accepted federal COVID-19 relief funds but failed to meet the Period 1 Provider Relie...
April 05, 2022
Insurance company prior authorization red tape creates serious and dangerous delays in care for many California patient...
Some providers across the country who accepted federal COVID-19 relief funds but failed to meet reporting requirements ...
Join California’s physicians, residents and medical students in educating legislative leaders as champions for patients...
DHCS is providing a series of Medi-Cal RX 101 trainings this month. There will be both live instructor led trainings, a...
Registration is now live for GME Startup Solutions’ virtual 2022 Graduate Medical Education Leadership Summit.
The past two years have seen enormous growth in the number of physicians implementing telehealth for the first time, wi...
April 04, 2022
In March 2021, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) submitted a State Plan Amendment (SPA 21-0020) ...
Assemblymember Villapudua today announced AB 2132, the California Future Physician Fund, to address California’s shorta...
The California DOJ is making important changes to the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System, kn...
DMHC is looking for providers willing to participate in interviews to help assess barriers and challenges providers exp...
April 01, 2022
Noting the continued importance of community vaccinators in the efforts to increase vaccine uptake