July 09, 2024
Physicians who have not received incentive payments for participating in an Advanced Alternative Payment Model for the ...
July 01, 2024
CMS has opened the Final Score Preview period for MIPS. Clinicians and authorized representatives of practices, virtual...
February 02, 2024
UnitedHealthcare recently announced that new member ID cards will be issued for some commercial plan members on or af...
December 12, 2023
The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) has launched the Encounter Data Resource Hub to help physician practice...
September 27, 2022
Cigna has advised CMA and AMA that it does not plan to move forward with implementation of this policy at this time.
January 28, 2022
In 2021, the California Medical Association (CMA) recovered nearly $3.2 million from payors on behalf of physician memb...
October 21, 2021
Aetna recently announced it would begin to transition to an all-electronic payment and remittance process in Septembe...
October 19, 2021
CMA recently joined AMA and 28 other medical and specialty societies to express strong concerns over unfair business pr...
April 14, 2021
CMA has learned that the contract between Dignity Health California and Anthem Blue Cross is set to terminate for its c...
April 13, 2021
DMHC will be conducting investigations to assess barriers practitioners experience in providing behavioral health servi...
April 08, 2021
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has recently finalized changes to the Medical-Legal Fee Schedu...
March 17, 2021
In response to CMA advocacy, UnitedHealthcare has advised that the Optum Pay basic service will restore free access to ...
December 22, 2020
Physicians who are participating in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) should take note of these important...
December 04, 2020
In 2020, Covered California, California's health benefit exchange, enrolled approximately 1.53 million individuals in q...
December 03, 2020
A 2018 survey showed that some health plans still regularly engage in unfair payment practices, with two-thirds of phys...
October 20, 2020
For many patients, the most effective telehealth technology is still the telephone. This includes patients who may not ...
June 30, 2020
CMA and a number of specialty medical associations have asked Anthem Blue Cross to delay implementation of a new policy...
June 23, 2020
Anthem notified physicians that it will soon require that specialty pharmacy medications administered in the office or ...
April 28, 2020
DHCS recently made important changes to the prior authorization process and billing for COVID-19-related emergency serv...
April 17, 2020
Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the implementation date for UnitedHealthcare’s new Medicare Advantage Emer...
April 10, 2020
AMA today announced two new CPT codes to report when patients receive blood tests that detect COVID-19 antibodies.
April 09, 2020
The federal government announced new measures on Thursday aimed at helping small and medium sized businesses – includin...
Noridian has scheduled a number of webinars to help providers with the process.
April 07, 2020
CMA knows that physician practices across California are hurting. Many physicians are experiencing high levels of finan...
Since the COVID-19 crisis began, CMA has been aggressively lobbying federal and state leaders to ensure physician pract...
April 02, 2020
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) will provide small businesses with less than 500 employees with forgivable, ze...
When billing professional claims for non-traditional telehealth services, you should bill with the place of service equ...
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