Coalition Files California Supreme Court Amicus Briefs In Support of Medical Staff Independence and Self-Governance 23 current and former chiefs of staff from throughout California have filed an amicus curiae brief with the California Supreme Court in El-Attar v. Hollywood Presbyterian Med. Ctr. SFMS/CMA and AMA have also filed a separate amicus brief in the case. The briefs argue that a hospital’s lay governing board is not qualified to engage in peer review and thus cannot directly or indirectly commandeer a medical staff’s peer review functions. September 13, 2012 Advocacy, AMA, CMA El-Attar v. Hollywood Presbyterian Med. Ctr, medical staff independence 0 0 Comment Read More »
Legislative Update (2011-2012 Legislative Session) The Legislative Session officially ended early Saturday morning and SFMS/CMA’s Government Relations team was at the Capitol until the very end. In the waning hours of the 2011-2012 Legislative Session, we successfully passed three sponsored bills, killed two bills that would have weakened the protections of MICRA, negotiated key amendments into the Worker’s Compensation bill, and proudly fought to reinstate the Healthy Families program as part of a multi-part deal that died sometime after 1:00 am. September 5, 2012 Advocacy, CMA AB 2109, AB 589, Healthy Families, Legislative Update, 2011-2012 Legislative Session 0 0 Comment Read More »
SFMS/CMA Prevents Last Minute Move To Scuttle MICRA; MICRA Is Preserved In the last days of the 2012 legislative session, a shell bill (SB 1528) was gutted and amended in an attempt by trial lawyers to undermine California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA). SFMS/CMA rallied its grassroots advocacy network and was able to thwart this move and the bill is dead for this legislative season. September 4, 2012 Advocacy, MICRA, Politics and Medicine SB 1528, MICRA 0 0 Comment Read More »
Oppose SB 1528 -- Last Minute Legislation Threatening MICRA SB 1528 is a last minute legislation that would undermine the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 (MICRA). If passed, the bill would artificially inflating economic medical expense damage awards in managed care cases. This, in turn, would increase medical malpractice premiums for physicians, many of whom would be forced to close shop thereby further limiting access to care for all Californians. CALL NOW to urge your legislators to VOTE NO on SB 1528. August 31, 2012 Advocacy, MICRA, Politics and Medicine, SFMS Member Events Legislative advocacy, Legislative Alert, MICRA, SB 1528 0 0 Comment Read More »
SFMS Supports Bills to Reinstate Medi-Cal Managed Care Organization Tax and Healthy Families SFMS/CMA support SB 301 (DeSaulnier) and AB 826 (Swanson), which would reinstate the Medi-Cal Managed Care Organization (MCO) Tax and the Healthy Families Program. Both bills have support from Republicans and Democrats in both houses. August 27, 2012 Advocacy, CMA, Medi Cal AB 826, Medi-Cal, SB 301, Healthy Families, MCO tax 0 0 Comment Read More »
