Status of CMA Priority Bills at Close of Legislative Session The California legislative session has come to a close. A summary of the status of CMA’s priority bills. September 1, 2016 Advocacy, CMA, Payment, Politics and Medicine, Scope of Practice billing, CMA, CURES, scope expansion 0 0 Comment Read More »
AB 72 Wrongly Rewards Health Insurance Plans for Carrying Inadequate Networks; Action Requested from Physicians AB 72 (Bonta) would hamper physicians’ ability to effectively negotiate fair rates with health insurance plans by setting out-of-network payments at a statutory default rate. Your legislators need to hear from physicians now! SFMS asks that physicians and their colleagues CALL, EMAIL or FAX your legislators, and urge them to oppose AB 72 unless amended! July 27, 2016 Payment, Politics and Medicine, Public Health AB 72, health insurance 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMA Publishes MACRA Resource Center To help physicians understand the MACRA payment reforms and what they can do now to start preparing for the transition, CMA has published a MACRA Resource Center. July 18, 2016 CMA, Medicare, Payment, Physician Resource CMA, MACRA, Medicare 0 0 Comment Read More »
Avoid Medicare PQRS and Value-Based Modifier Penalties; File by December 16 Problems with how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been collecting and analyzing data related to the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and the value-based payment modifier (VM) may lead to inappropriate penalties of 2-4% of Medicare payments for thousands of physicians. December 10, 2015 AMA, Medicare, Payment, Practice Management value-based payment modifier, physician quality reporting system, PQRS 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMS Issues Final Rule for Medicare Coverage of End-of-Life Talks Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that will allow Medicare to reimburse physicians for end-of-life discussions with patients effective January 1, 2016. November 2, 2015 Medicare, News, Payment 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, end-of-life 0 0 Comment Read More »
