January 18, 2024
Two critical bills opposed by CMA – Assembly Bill 1570 and Senate Bill 784 – were both held on the suspense file in the...
November 16, 2022
The Board of Registered Nursing has issued regulations that change the physician supervision requirements for two newly...
September 29, 2022
Governor Newsom yesterday vetoed a dangerous bill (AB 2236) that would have allowed optometrists to perform eye surgeri...
July 27, 2021
CMA and its members continue to engage with state regulators over AB 890 implementation.
October 13, 2020
To ensure that CMA members understand the potential effects of this bill, CMA has published a new fact sheet titled AB ...
October 06, 2020
CMA joined AMA and 30 other health care organizations to oppose the “ Medicare Mental Health Access Act ” (HR 884/S 277...
September 29, 2020
We are deeply disappointed that Gov. Newsom signed AB 890. We strongly believe that physician-based care is the model t...
September 01, 2020
A dangerous bill that would undermine physician-led care and could create a lower tier of care for low-income patients ...
August 21, 2020
The California Senate is set to vote on a bill that would remove critical patient protections by allowing NPs to practi...
June 23, 2020
The California Senate is currently considering a bill that would grant full practice authority to nurse practitioners (...
March 31, 2020
Gov. Newsom on Monday eased the path for many health care professionals to practice in an expanded capacity during the ...
October 14, 2019
Although the order is very broad and lacks details, it is clear that the administration is looking at eliminating regul...
May 28, 2019
EMSA has proposed new regulations that would allow paramedics to triage and transport patients to locations other than ...
April 26, 2018
Today, the California Medical Association (CMA) announced that the organization opposes the proposed November ballot ...
February 23, 2018
This week, State Senators Richard Pan, M.D., and Cathleen Galgiani introduced Senate Bill 1303, which would require cou...
December 08, 2017
California Medical Association (CMA) and the San Joaquin County Medical Society (SJCMS) called on San Joaquin County to...
August 04, 2016
CMA joined 97 specialty and medical societies to send a letter to the VA expressing concerns with a proposed rule that ...
June 22, 2016
The California Medical Association (CMA), along with 10 other medical societies representing more than 180,000 physicia...
September 17, 2015
The California Medical Association (CMA) has defeated a bill that would have drastically changed the current health car...
September 08, 2015
A new law (Assembly Bill 637) recently signed by Gov. Jerry Brown will allow nurse practitioners (NP) and physician ass...
July 15, 2015
Sacramento – On Tuesday July 14, Senate Bill 622 (Hernandez) was held in the Assembly Business and Professions Committe...
A bill that would have allowed nurse practitioners (NP) to practice independently and prescribe drugs without physician...
June 30, 2015
Sacramento – After today’s Assembly Business and Professions Committee vote, California Medical Association President ...
April 21, 2015
The California State Board of Pharmacy has approved emergency regulations allowing pharmacists to furnish naloxone hydr...
January 15, 2015
The Medical Board of California approved an amendment to California administrative law that would allow physicians assi...
August 22, 2014
The California Medical Association (CMA) has successfully quashed a scope-of-practice bill (SB 492) that originally wou...
April 29, 2014
The California Medical Association (CMA) successfully quashed a bill (SB 1215, Hernandez) that would have eliminated th...
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