Physician groups Urge CMS to Create Contingency Plans for ICD-10 Transition The California Medical Association (CMA), American Medical Association (AMA), and 98 other state and specialty societies urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to put contingency plans in place for the October transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 to avoid possible failures that could result in significant disruptions for physicians and Medicare patients. March 6, 2015 AMA, CMA ICD-10 0 0 Comment Read More »
Physicians join California Legislators and We Care For California Coalition to Reignite Medi-Cal Legislation, Reduce Health Care Inequality Physicians, health care workers, and patients joined legislators at the state Capitol to call attention to California's very low Medi-Cal reimbursement rates and its negative impact on access-to-care. SB 243 and AB 366 were introduced to repeal the 10% cut to Medi-Cal reimbursement and increase Medi-Cal payments to Medicare standards. March 4, 2015 Advocacy, Medi Cal, Payment Ed Hernandez, SB 243, AB 366, Medi-Cal reimbursement, Rob Bonta, We Care for California, WeCare4CA 0 0 Comment Read More »
Medi-Cal Deactivates Some Physicians in Error DHCS incorrectly deactivated some Medi-Cal providers due to system error in February 2015. March 3, 2015 Medi Cal, News Medi-Cal, Medi-Cal provider 0 0 Comment Read More »
SFMS Joins Supervisor Mark Farrell to Propose Tobacco Ban Legislation The San Francisco Medical Society joined San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell (District 2) to introduce a legislation to eliminate the use of all tobacco products—including smokeless tobacco—at all baseball venues and city athletic fields in San Francisco. February 25, 2015 Advocacy, Local Events, Public Health Knock Tobacco Out of the Park, Mark Farrell, Roger Eng, tobacco ban, Tobacco Free Kids 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMA Foundation Releases Adult Vaccine Schedule To help physicians answer questions posed by the recent measles outbreak in California and to educate adult patients about their vaccination needs, the California Medical Association Foundation has release an adult vaccine schedule that physicians can hand out during patient visits. February 25, 2015 CMA, Physician Resource Adult Vaccine Schedule, Measles 0 0 Comment Read More »
