New Parkinson's Reporting Requirements Take Effect July 1 June 29, 2018 Health care providers diagnosing or providing treatment to Parkinson's disease patients will be required to report each case of ... Read More
Thank You Physician Members – We Defeated AB 3087! June 1, 2018 Last week, the California Medical Association (CMA) killed Assembly Bill 3087 (Kalra) – dangerous legislation that would have created ... Read More
NO ON AB 3087 - Stop Physician Rate Regulation May 21, 2018 Article by Katherine Boroski Dangerous rate setting proposal threatens to decimate California’s health care delivery system Since passage of the Affordable Care ... Read More
President Trump Wants to Strip $7 billion from Children's Health Insurance Program May 14, 2018 President Donald Trump recently announced his intention to strip more than $15.4 billion out of the $1.3 trillion federal spending bill ... Read More
Healthcare Community Condemns Physician Price Fixing Bill May 14, 2018 On April 24, the Assembly Committee on Health voted to advance Assembly Bill 3087 (Kalra), a harmful government intrusion ... Read More
Payors Report System Changes to Comply With AB 72 May 4, 2018 When California's new out-of-network billing and payment law (AB 72) took effect on July 1, 2017, the California Medical ... Read More
California Physicians Oppose November Proposition That Would Put Dialysis Patients' Lives at Risk April 27, 2018 On April 26, the California Medical Association (CMA) announced that the organization opposes the proposed November ballot proposition that would impose arbitrary ... Read More
Instead Of Single-Payer Pipe Dream, This Legislation Will Expand Health care April 2, 2018 Article Originally Appeared on The Sacramento Bee The California Nurses Association claims a recent legislative package is a piecemeal approach to ... Read More
New Universal Access Proposal Introduced in CA Legislature March 26, 2018 A sweeping package of legislation was introduced in the California Legislature last week that sets a clear and realistic ... Read More
CMA-Sponsored Bill Would Require Physician-Conducted Autopsies March 19, 2018 The California Medical Association (CMA) is sponsoring a bill (SB 1303) that would require counties with populations of 500,000 ... Read More
California State Budget Proposal for 2018-2019 January 24, 2018 Governor Brown released his state budget proposal for the 2018-2019 fiscal year. General Fund revenues are up $5.9 billion ... Read More
Save the Date for CMA's 44th Annual Legislative Advocacy Day January 16, 2018 The California Legislature had an active year, passing many new laws affecting health care—with a strong focus on health ... Read More