Obama Administration Rejects California’s Request to Impose Mandatory Co-Pays The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rejected California’s request to impose mandatory co-payments for Medi-Cal patients. The co-pays, which would have included physician office and clinic visits ($5), ER visits ($50), and inpatient hospital stays ($100 per day up to a $200 maximum), was another attempt by the state to balance to budget by slashing Medi-Cal. February 6, 2012 Advocacy, CMA, News, Payment mandatory co-pay, Medi-Cal 0 0 Comment Read More »
Bipartisan Support Growing for Funding Medicare SGR Repeal with Unspent War Funds We must garner more support from the California Republicans and shore up the Democrats. There is only a short window of opportunity. Please call and send a short message to your representatives via email. A short message from hundreds of physicians will have an enormous impact. The military “savings” is an appropriate funding source to repeal the Medicare SGR, which costs over $300 billion. February 6, 2012 Advocacy, CMA, Medicare, Payment, SFMS Member Events Federal Legislative Advocacy, Medicare, SGR, sustainable growth rate 0 0 Comment Read More »
New Medicare Patient Preventive and Wellness Services Resource Medicare reimburses physicians $70 for a typical patient visit. However, doctors can earn more than twice that—$166—for conducting a patient's initial wellness visit. February 3, 2012 AMA, Medicare, Physician Resource Medicare, Preventive Services, Team Up to Stay Healthy, wellness visit 0 0 Comment Read More »
SFMS Member Selected as 2012 Recipient of AAP Martin Gershman Child Advocacy Award Shannon Udovic-Constant, MD, SFMS President-Elect and pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, was selected as the recipient of the 2012 Martin Gershman, MD, FAAP Child Advocacy Award. February 3, 2012 Local Events, SFMS Member AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics, FAAP Child Advocacy Award, Martin Gershman, Shannon Udovic-Constant 1 1 Comment Read More »
Free Hep B Screening This Month February 2, 2012 Local Events, Public Health, UCSF free vaccination, Hep B Free, Hepatitis B 0 0 Comment Read More »
