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July 06, 2022
CMA President Robert E. Wailes, M.D., issued a statement today in response to final California budget.
Every year PHC and NEPO bring together ethnic physicians and health care champions from across California to share valu...
July 05, 2022
A new federal law took effect in January 2022 that now requires health plans/insurers to verify the accuracy of their c...
June 29, 2022
CDPH has released an advisory for health care providers on the evolving monkeypox outbreak. The advisory includes inf...
A CMA bill to reduce prior authorization red tape has passed out of the Assembly Health Committee. This bill—SB 250 aut...
June 28, 2022
DHCS has not yet completed the system and operational changes required to enable successful claims adjudication for adm...
The 151st Annual Session of the CMA House of Delegates will discuss three major issues when it convenes October 22-23, ...
DHCS recently announced that it would soon begin reinstating pharmacy claim edits and prior authorization requirement...
Gov. Newsom recently sent a letter to U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, urging him to fix the Public Service Loa...
CMS is hosting a series of webinars on specific No Surprises Act topics in the coming weeks. The next webinar will c...
June 27, 2022
CMA is urging Cigna to rescind its recently announced policy that would require the submission of medical records with ...
In the 2021 legislative session, CMA sponsored a bill to increase the tax on e-cigarette and vaping products to more cl...
PHC recently hosted the inaugural GME Leadership Summit . The virtual summit—hosted by PHC’s GME Startup Solutions p...
June 24, 2022
CMA applauds Congress for passing long overdue gun reforms, and putting aside political differences to help stop the ep...
Today the U. S. Supreme Court has rolled back the fundamental rights of Americans to receive evidence-based reproductiv...
June 22, 2022
CDPH recently expanded the definition of “close contact” to better acknowledge that COVID-19 is an airborne disease, ra...
June 16, 2022
Physicians for a Healthy California and the Network of Ethnic Physician Organizations are seeking nominations of extrao...
June 14, 2022
Congress is rushing to push through a bill that recklessly expands scope of practice at the federal level.
Join us on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, from 12 – 1 p.m. for the latest installment of our monthly Virtual Grand Rounds to l...
In the wake of recent mass shootings, the U.S. Senate this weekend announced a bipartisan agreement on gun reforms.
Two CMA physicians were elected to the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees at the association's annual...
Jack Resneck Jr., M.D ., a dermatologist and health policy expert from San Francisco, will be installed this evening a...
The AMA Foundation has awarded two Californian physicians with Excellence in Medicine Awards for their service and lead...
June 13, 2022
The California Department of Insurance is warning health insurers that refusing to cover necessary treatments and limit...
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 avail...
June 07, 2022
Learn how practices are thriving in Aledade ACOs. ACO deadline for 2023 is almost here!
June 06, 2022
Congress is rushing to push through a bill that recklessly expands scope of practice at the federal level. Through a pa...
In late May, Cigna announced that it will begin requiring the submission of medical records with all E/M claims with ...
June 04, 2022
California Medical Association President Robert E. Wailes, M.D., issued the following statement on the recent violence ...
June 03, 2022
Over the past month, a series of tragic and senseless mass shootings have, once again, ripped communities and families ...
June 02, 2022
CMA is pleased to announce that Jamie Ostroff will serve as CMA’s new Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, leading ...
June 01, 2022
CMA recently updated its guide – The No Surprises Act: What Physicians Need to Know – to reflect this guidance, eligibi...
AMA announced an update to the CPT code set to now include the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months thro...
Deeply alarmed about the growing financial instability of the Medicare physician payment system, CMA is one of 120 orga...
May 31, 2022
On July 16, 2022, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline will be replaced with a simple, easy-to-remember three-digit...
May 24, 2022
PHC has extended the deadline for its KidsVaxGrant program – which will award grants of up to $15,000 to support Vaccin...
May 23, 2022
Gov. Newsom today signed AB 35 into law, and in doing so put an end to a decades long political battle and ushered in a...
Physicians are reminded that Medi-Cal provides an electronic method to resolve a claim denial or incorrect payment fo...
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...