CMS Increases Physician Payment by 0.5% in Medicare Physician Fee Schedule CMS recently released the 2016 proposed Medicare physician payment rule. The rule reflects the 0.5% increase in payment as of July 1, 2015, and the additional 0.5% increase in payment on January 1, 2016, recently adopted by Congress. July 27, 2015 Advocacy, AMA, Medicare, News, Payment 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Geographic Adjustment Factors, Medicare physician payment rule, MPFS 0 0 Comment Read More »
Special Session on Medi-Cal Financing Underway in the Capitol Governor Jerry Brown has convened a special legislative session on health care financing. Legislators will be working through August 2015 to come up with new funding for developmental disability services, in-home supportive services, and the Medi-Cal program. July 22, 2015 Advocacy, CMA, Medi Cal, Medicaid MCO tax, Medi-Cal funding 0 0 Comment Read More »
SFGH to Host 50th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid Celebration Join SFGH and CMS Region IX at a celebration marking the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid on July 30, 2015. July 20, 2015 Local Events, Medicaid, Medicare, San Francisco General Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare 50th anniversary, San Francisco General Hospital 0 0 Comment Read More »
Package of Tobacco Bills Reintroduced to Raise Smoking Age, Regulate e-Cigarettes SFMS and CMA join our Save Lives California coalition partners to applaud California lawmakers reintroduced a package of six tobacco bills this week to fight the No. 1 cause of preventable death in California: tobacco use. July 17, 2015 Advocacy, CMA, News, Public Health e-cigarettes, Save Lives California, tobacco, tobacco legislation 0 0 Comment Read More »
Highlights from AMA’s 2015 House of Delegates The American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates tackled a diverse set of resolutions this year that are of interest to California physicians, including medical-only exemptions from school vaccination requirements, electronic health record (EHR) meaningful use, ICD-10 implementation, Medicaid rates and opioid abuse. July 14, 2015 AMA AMA House of Delegates, EHR, vaccination 0 0 Comment Read More »
