The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented threat to the viability of physician practices. The fallout from this crisis threatens to fundamentally alter California’s health care delivery system not just during the COVID-19 outbreak, but for years to come. The California Medical Association (CMA) recently released the results of its COVID-19 Physician Financial Health Survey, which highlights the immediate need for financial assistance for physician practices.
CMA has now released regional summaries of the survey results.
For more details, see the complete survey results.
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January 26, 2023
Effective February 1, 2023, the Medical Board of California will no longer accept and process paper applications for th...
January 24, 2023
Physicians are reminded that Phase II of the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) Medi-Cal Rx transitio...
Noridian has now updated its 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule to reflect this change and has started releasing 20...
The regulations set the minimum "transition to practice" standards for NPs seeking to apply for licensure under these n...
UHC Community Plan has announced that it is no longer providing services to approximately 30,000 Medi-Cal members in Sa...
On January 20, 2023, CMS refreshed Open Payment data for program Years 2015 through 2021 to reflect changes to the data...
January 20, 2023
In its year-end omnibus legislation, Congress took steps to a expand access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid...
January 18, 2023
CMA will host its annual Legislative Advocacy Day in Sacramento on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Attendees will have the o...
A new application cycle for the CalHealthCares Loan Repayment Program is now open. CalHealthCares provides loan repayme...
UC Health is hosting a free webinar on February 8, 2023, at 12 p.m., to review the current legal landscape, as well a...
California health care providers can now call (866) 268-4322 (COVID-CA) to receive free and confidential consultation o...
January 11, 2023
On January 10, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled his $297 billion budget proposal for the 2023-24 fiscal year, which...
Noridian is working to update its 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule to reflect this change, and is expected to post ...
This event will bring together thought leaders from across California and the nation to explore the intersection of tec...
January 10, 2023
Beginning January 1, 2023, all physicians licensed by the Medical Board of California must provide an updated “notice t...
CMA President Donaldo Hernandez, M.D., FACP, issued the following statement in response to the budget.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has extended the extreme and uncontrollable circumstances application de...
January 09, 2023
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corporation has been awarded the contract for managed care support for the Tricare West Reg...
AB 890 created two new classifications of nurse practitioners (NPs) – 103 and 104 NPs – who can perform certain functio...
Physician practices and medical groups are reminded that under state law, they must sign California’s Data Sharing Agr...
January 05, 2023
Low volume prescribers and health care practitioners that meet certain criteria can now request an exemption from Calif...
January 03, 2023
DHCS has finalized an agreement with five commercial managed care plans to deliver Medi-Cal services in 21 counties acr...
December 30, 2022
The California Department of Health Care Services has extended the deadline to apply for a health care worker retention...
December 26, 2022
The United States Congress passed their year-end omnibus legislation last week, which includes a Medicare physician pay...
December 22, 2022
DHCS is transitioning 325,000 dual eligible beneficiaries in 31 counties to Medi-Cal managed care effective January 1, ...
The next application cycle of the CalHealthCares Loan Repayment Program opens January 18, 2023.
December 21, 2022
California and many parts of the US are experiencing a “tripledemic” with flu, SARS-CoV-2, and respiratory syncytial vi...
Physicians and physician groups are reminded that the deadline to apply for a 2022 Medicare hardship exception is Janua...
This fall saw an unprecedented early surge of RSV, as well as early and record-breaking rates of influenza and a new CO...
CDPH is urging health care providers to ask all patients presenting with acute, possibly infectious
December 20, 2022
DHCS has extended the registration deadline for the health care worker retention bonuses. The deadline, originally Dece...
December 14, 2022
In 2022, Covered California, California's health benefit exchange saw an increase in statewide enrollment of approximat...
UHC recently announced that providers will be required to submit claim reconsiderations and post-service appeals electr...
As the current year ends, physicians are urged to verify patients' eligibility and benefits for 2023 to ensure they wil...
The MedStudentsServe program is accepting applications for its 2023 grant cycle through January 6, 2023. The program fu...
December 13, 2022
DHCS recently announced that phase 2 of the Medi-Cal Rx transition will begin in January 2023. In Phase II—which will b...
The proposed rule would require electronic prior authorization processes, shorten the time frames respond to prior auth...
We've been sounding the alarm bell for months that if Congress didn't act by the end of the year, physicians would face...
Effective January 1, 2023, a new state law requires California health care providers who administer vaccines to enter t...
DHCS will transition 325,000 dual eligible beneficiaries in 31 counties to Medi-Cal managed care effective January 1, 2...
A new California law that takes effect January 1, 2023, requires California physicians to provide patients with a writt...
CDPH will be co-hosting a COVID-19 Test to Treat Equity ECHO learning series, with the first introductory webinar sessi...
The retention bonuses, of up to $1,000, will be available to employees of hospitals, clinics that are 1206(l)s and affi...
December 12, 2022
CalHHS has opened its new online portal to allow practices to sign California’s Data Sharing Agreement. The agreement i...
December 07, 2022
CDPH is urging physicians to lower barriers for prescribing COVID-19 therapeutics.
November 29, 2022
COVID-19 remains on our radar, but other infectious diseases are also causing new or unusual symptoms and warrant atten...
The Medical Board of California is warning physicians that scam artists have begun posing as law enforcement officers ...
The U.S. Department of Education has released the final rule on the national overhaul of the broken Public Service Loan...