Tobacco Bills Headed for Senate Floor; SFMS Physicians to Participate in Coalition Lobby Day The SFMS/CMA endorsed tobacco legislation package heads to the Senator floor after approval by the Senate Appropriation Committee. August 25, 2015 Advocacy, News, Public Health SBX2-7, tobacco legislation, e-cigarette, lobby day, Mark Leno, physician advocacy, SBX2-5 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMS Increases Physician Payment by 0.5% in Medicare Physician Fee Schedule CMS recently released the 2016 proposed Medicare physician payment rule. The rule reflects the 0.5% increase in payment as of July 1, 2015, and the additional 0.5% increase in payment on January 1, 2016, recently adopted by Congress. July 27, 2015 Advocacy, AMA, Medicare, News, Payment 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Geographic Adjustment Factors, Medicare physician payment rule, MPFS 0 0 Comment Read More »
Special Session on Medi-Cal Financing Underway in the Capitol Governor Jerry Brown has convened a special legislative session on health care financing. Legislators will be working through August 2015 to come up with new funding for developmental disability services, in-home supportive services, and the Medi-Cal program. July 22, 2015 Advocacy, CMA, Medi Cal, Medicaid MCO tax, Medi-Cal funding 0 0 Comment Read More »
Package of Tobacco Bills Reintroduced to Raise Smoking Age, Regulate e-Cigarettes SFMS and CMA join our Save Lives California coalition partners to applaud California lawmakers reintroduced a package of six tobacco bills this week to fight the No. 1 cause of preventable death in California: tobacco use. July 17, 2015 Advocacy, CMA, News, Public Health e-cigarettes, Save Lives California, tobacco, tobacco legislation 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 »
