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September 12, 2025
DMHC has ordered health plans to end their contracts with Meritage Health Plan and reassign nearly 11,000 Medicare Adva...
September 11, 2025
This week, two bills sponsored by the California Medical Association (CMA) that will cut red tape around access to heal...
CMA is strongly supporting SB 144 to ensure Californians maintain access to life-saving vaccines amid federal uncertain...
September 04, 2025
The FDA has approved the updated COVID-19 vaccines for adults 65 and older and individuals with high-risk conditions—a ...
CMA is urging physicians and medical groups to contact Cigna and demand the withdrawal of its new automatic downcoding ...
Beginning Oct. 1, new federal requirements will require certified EHR systems to integrate real-time prescription drug ...
August 27, 2025
With Medicare telehealth flexibilities set to expire Sept. 30, CMA and AMA are urging Congress to pass H.R. 4206, the C...
Federal regulators have extended their “enforcement discretion” on how insurers calculate the Qualified Payment Amount ...
August 20, 2025
DHCS is rolling out a series of Medi-Cal Rx policy changes starting November 1, 2025, with more extensive coverage rest...
CMA is calling on Cigna to rescind a new automatic downcoding policy that appears to violate California law, creates un...
August 11, 2025
Anthem Blue Cross is now enforcing a policy requiring physicians to include the appropriate gestational age ICD-10 Z3A ...
A federal antitrust lawsuit against MultiPlan and several major insurers is moving forward, alleging a price-fixing sch...
August 09, 2025
Health plans are routinely failing to pay physicians after losing independent dispute resolution cases under the No Sur...
August 06, 2025
CMS has re-opened the Doctors and Clinicians preview period for calendar year 2023, giving physicians another chance to...
August 05, 2025
Advanced APM-participating physicians who have not received incentive payments for the 2023 performance period/2025 pay...
August 04, 2025
A coalition of leading medical organizations is suing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for unilaterally stripping ...
July 17, 2025
CMS has released its proposed 2026 physician payment rule, which would increase the Medicare conversion factors by 3.6%...
July 14, 2025
The TRICARE referral and authorization waiver for the West Region expired on June 30. Providers must now follow standar...
July 03, 2025
As of July 1, 2025, any contract that creates a medical debt must include specific consumer protection language under C...
June 26, 2025
The TRICARE referral and authorization waiver for the West Region will expire on June 30. After that date, providers mu...
June 24, 2025
CMS is warning providers about fraudulent faxed requests for medical records falsely claiming to be part of Medicare au...
June 18, 2025
Don’t forget to claim your share of the $2.8 billion settlement in the landmark class action BCBS Provider Antitrust la...
June 12, 2025
CMA continues to fight at the national level to stop the devastating Medicaid cuts that will not only harm vulnerable p...
June 11, 2025
CMA is proud to announce that seven of its eight sponsored and priority-support bills successfully passed out of their ...
DHCS recently announced the details of its annual “checkwrite” delay. DHCS will delay certain payments for two weeks in...
June 02, 2025
The Medical Board of California is transitioning to a paperless renewal process and will not accept paper renewal forms...
May 29, 2025
CMA Physician Services CEO David Ford recently appeared on the Thriving Practice podcast to highlight MedWay...
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