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 »
New Health Laws 2016 Affecting California Physicians SFMS in partnership with the Cooperative of American Physicians have compiled a list of the most important bills pertaining to the practice of medicine and/or impacting physicians in 2016. December 15, 2015 Advocacy, News, Physician Resource, Politics and Medicine AB X2-15, SB 277, 2016 laws, AB 637, AB 679, SB 299 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 »
SFMS Applauds Leader Pelosi for HR 1470 - Bipartisan SGR Repeal Package SFMS Applauds Leader Pelosi for HR 1470 - Bipartisan SGR Repeal Package. SFMS and the California Medical Association fully support the SGR bill, the funding framework, and CHIP extension. March 20, 2015 Advocacy, AMA, CMA, Medicare, Payment, Politics and Medicine SGR, HR 1470, Nancy Pelosi, sustainable growth rate 0 0 Comment Read More »
SFMS/CMA Lead Resounding Victory in Defeating Prop. 46 by 2 to 1 Margin On November 4, the voters of California spoke loudly and definitively, sending the trial lawyers’ Proposition 46 to defeat by a 2 to 1 margin. The message is clear—Californians simply don’t want to increase health care costs and reduce health access so trial attorneys can file more lawsuits. November 13, 2014 MICRA, Politics and Medicine MICRA, Prop 46 0 0 Comment Read More »
