CMS and AMA Announce Joint Efforts to Help with ICD-10 Transition The American Medical Association and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) jointly announced that agreement has been reached on important elements of a “grace period” for the October 1, 2015, implementation of the ICD-10 diagnosis code set. July 6, 2015 AMA, Practice Management ICD-10, ICD-10 grace period 0 0 Comment Read More »
Medicare Reimbursement Rates Increase Effective July 1 A 0.5% physician payment increase will go into effect for dates of service from July 1 through December 31, 2015. July 2, 2015 Medicare, Payment ., Medicare, Medicare physician reimbursement rate, Noridian 0 0 Comment Read More »
Assembly Panel Rejects Nurse Practitioners' Scope-of-Practice Bill; Optometry Bill to be Heard Next Week Legislative alert: Contact Asm. Phil Ting to urge a NO vote on SB 622, bill to allow optometrists to perform scalpel and laser surgeries, administer immunizations, and perform or order laboratory and diagnostic imaging tests with minimal education and training. July 1, 2015 Advocacy, Politics and Medicine SB 323, SB 622, scope of practice, SFMS advocacy 0 0 Comment Read More »
Mayor Lee Signs SFMS-Endorsed Sugar Sweetened Beverage Ordinances A trio of sugar sweetened beverage bills that had been endorsed by the SFMS moved swiftly through City Hall and were signed into law by Mayor Ed Lee on June 25. July 1, 2015 Advocacy, News, Public Health Scott Wiener, soda health warning, SSB ordinance, sugar sweetened beverage 0 0 Comment Read More »
Supreme Court Upholds ACA Subsidies The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), reaffirming that 6.4 million people in 34 states can continue to receive subsidies to purchase health care insurance. In a 6-3 ruling, the nation’s highest court ruled that critics’ reading of Obamacare might make sense in isolation, but not when viewed in a larger context and in light of the intention of the law. June 30, 2015 News ACA, King v. Burwell, Obamacare, SCOTUS 0 0 Comment Read More »
