May 2012 AMA Advocacy Update: CMS Releases Final Rule on CoPs, Passage of HR 5652 and Its Effect on Physicians, EHR MU Program Excerpts from the May 2012 AMA Advocacy Update. May 21, 2012 Advocacy, AMA, EHR, Medicare, News AMA National Advocacy Update, UnitedHealth Group, CoPs, EHR MU Program 0 0 Comment Read More »
Taxing Tobacco: Clearing the Smoke California now ranks thirty-third among states in taxing tobacco. Clearing the tobacco-funded smoke to get California voters to see the wisdom of Proposition 29 will not be easy. But we agree with the Sacramento Bee, which recently editorialized that, despite some reluctance about the initiative process in general, “the potential benefits of raising the tobacco tax outweigh the uncertainties posed by Prop. 29 governance. May 17, 2012 Advocacy, CMA, SFMS Member California Cancer Research Act, Prop 29, CCRA 0 0 Comment Read More »
SFMS Member's Letter to the Editor in Today's Chronicle Letter to the editor regarding misleading advertising featuring Dr. Ladonna Porter opposing Prop 29. Both the National Medical Association (of which the Golden State Medical Association is a regional chapter) and the California Medical Association strongly support efforts to curb tobacco’s deadly toll. May 8, 2012 Advocacy, SFMS Member Dr. Ladonna Porter, John Maa, Prop 29 0 0 Comment Read More »
Support Prop 29: Cut Health Care Costs, Spur the Economy, and Cure Cancer Prop 29, the California Cancer Research Act, will benefit every Californian by lowering health care costs in the state, by enhancing California's economy, and by funding life-saving research that produces new diagnostics, treatments and cures for patients. May 8, 2012 Advocacy, CMA, News California Cancer Research Act, Prop 29 0 0 Comment Read More »
Survey Confirms Physicians Have the Blues Over the Blues CMA has received complaints from physicians regarding Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s refusal to honor assignment of benefits, highlighting the burden and cost it places on the physician practice to act as debt collectors rather than physicians, and in many cases, this policy has jeopardized the physician-patient relationship. CMA conducted a survey completed by over 1,100 physician practices to obtain additional information about what criteria they consider when deciding whether to contract with a payor. April 27, 2012 Advocacy, CMA, Payment, SFMS Member AB 1742 0 0 Comment Read More »
