Primary Care Payment Struggles The way doctors bill and get paid is a byzantine process and it is no wonder the "private practice" doctor is an endangered species. September 12, 2012 Payment, Primary Care, SFMS Member physician payment, Toni Brayer 0 0 Comment Read More »
How Does the Affordable Care Act Cover the Uninsured? How Does the Affordable Care Act Cover the Uninsured? September 6, 2012 Health Care Reform ACA, uninsured, Affordable Care Act 0 0 Comment Read More »
Legislative Update (2011-2012 Legislative Session) The Legislative Session officially ended early Saturday morning and SFMS/CMA’s Government Relations team was at the Capitol until the very end. In the waning hours of the 2011-2012 Legislative Session, we successfully passed three sponsored bills, killed two bills that would have weakened the protections of MICRA, negotiated key amendments into the Worker’s Compensation bill, and proudly fought to reinstate the Healthy Families program as part of a multi-part deal that died sometime after 1:00 am. September 5, 2012 Advocacy, CMA AB 2109, AB 589, Healthy Families, Legislative Update, 2011-2012 Legislative Session 0 0 Comment Read More »
SFMS/CMA Prevents Last Minute Move To Scuttle MICRA; MICRA Is Preserved In the last days of the 2012 legislative session, a shell bill (SB 1528) was gutted and amended in an attempt by trial lawyers to undermine California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA). SFMS/CMA rallied its grassroots advocacy network and was able to thwart this move and the bill is dead for this legislative season. September 4, 2012 Advocacy, MICRA, Politics and Medicine SB 1528, MICRA 0 0 Comment Read More »
Bad Bugs, From Farm to Us: Curtailing Antibiotic Overuse in Agriculture With ever-increasing microbial resistance to our ever-challenged arsenal of antibiotics, clearly we need to do everything possible to stay ahead in the Darwinian race between bacterial pathogens and humanity. One intervention, increasingly indicated by research and supported by many reputable health organizations, is to decrease the massive prophylactic and growth-promoting use of antibiotics in the production of food, primarily meat. September 4, 2012 Public Health, San Francisco Medicine, SFMS Member Lester Breslow, Philip Lee, Antibiotic overuse 0 0 Comment Read More »
