"News You Can Use" <> June 16, 2015 CONTENTS Announcing Our Apple Watch Winner You Have Until Midnight on June 19 to Complete Your Top Docs 2015 Ballot Can’t Figure Out That Leadership Thing? Medicare-eligible Physicians Must Apply for a 2016 Hardship Exception by July 1 to Avoid a 2016 Medicare Payment Adjustment Your Member Services Quiz Supreme Court Rules Against Delayed Lawsuits, Damages Medi-Cal to Delay Payments for Two Weeks in June ... June 16, 2015 CMA Benefits, Meaningful Use, Medi-Cal, Medicare Medi-Cal, Top Docs, Vaccines 0 0 Comment Read More »
"News You Can Use" <> June 8, 2015 CONTENTS SDCMS’s 2015 White Coat Gala Is This Saturday, June 13, at the Hyatt La Jolla from 6:00pm to 11:00pm Can’t Figure Out That Leadership Thing? Physicians: Have You Completed Your Top Docs 2015 Ballot? DHCS Extended Meaningful Use Attestation Deadlines for 2014 to June 14, 2015 Your Member Services Quiz Medicare-eligible Professionals: Take Action by July 1 to Avoid 2016 Medicare Payment Adjustment Special Application Cycle Open ... June 10, 2015 Top Docs Leadership, Top Docs, White Coat Gala 0 0 Comment Read More »
"News You Can Use" <> June 3, 2015 CONTENTS CMA Removes Opposition to Physician Aid in Dying Bill Is Your Office Working on ICD-10 Compliance? June 6 Members-only 3.5-hour Workshop on Legal & Financial Literacy Your Member Services Quiz ER Visits Continue to Climb Under Affordable Care Act Vaccine Bill Receives Overwhelming Support From Senate, While Calif. Democratic Party Adopts Policy on Issue Governor’s Revised Budget Contains No Significant Increases for Medi-Cal Broad ... June 3, 2015 ICD-10, PAS / PAD ICD-10, Physician Aid in Dying 0 0 Comment Read More »
"News You Can Use" <> May 13, 2015 CONTENTS Is Your Office Working on ICD-10 Compliance? Members & Office Staff: Do You Know How to Effectively Discipline Your Staff? June 6 Members-only Workshop on Financial & Legal Life Skills Mingle, Socialize, and Network With Your Fellow Docs on Friday, July 10 Your Member Services Quiz Summary and Timeline of HR 2, the “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015” or “MACRA” Physicians Have Until May ... May 13, 2015 ICD-10 ICD-10 0 0 Comment Read More »
"News You Can Use" <> April 22, 2015 CONTENTS Doctors: Mingle, Socialize, and Network With Your Fellow Physicians THIS FRIDAY, April 24, 5:30pm–8:00pm June 6 Workshop on Financial & Legal Life Skills So What Have We Done for Our Members Lately? Here’s a Great Example Your Member Services Quiz Senate Bill 277 Clears Senate Education Committee Today 7–2 April Is National Organ Donation for Life Month • Be a Hero • Sign up to Save Lives ... April 22, 2015 Public Health SGR, Vaccinations 0 0 Comment Read More »
Special SDCMS “News You Can Use” <> It's Finally Over: The SGR Is Dead! Thursday, April 16, 2015 After a decade of battling, the U.S. Senate, in a whopping vote of 92–8, passed HR 2 on Tuesday, the monumental, bipartisan Medicare SGR Payment Reform and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act — both Senators Feinstein and Boxer voted in the affirmative. Two weeks ago, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted the legislation in a landslide vote of 392–37. A 21% cut to physicians’ Medicare payments was set to take place on April 15. Instead, HR 2 provides positive annual payment updates of 0.5% starting ... April 16, 2015 Medicare, SGR SGR 0 0 Comment Read More »