Health Policy, Medicare

Deep Medicare Cuts Set to Take Effect Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Posted June 1st, 2010 in Health Policy, Managing Your Practice

Senior Citizens Could Face New Obstacles to Getting Care, After Payments Are Cut 21%

For the third time this year, Congress has failed to prevent deep cuts in Medicare reimbursements from taking effect, jeopardizing senior citizens' access to healthcare and aggravating physicians who are doing their best to serve their patients but don't know if they can pay their bills month to month.

Topics: Healthcare News and Updates, Medicare, SDCMS News and Updates, SGR

Deep Medicare Cuts Set to Take Effect Thursday, April 1, 2010

Posted March 31st, 2010 in Health Policy, Managing Your Practice, Press Release

For Immediate Release
Contact: Andrew LaMar at (916) 551-2881
March 31, 2010

Deep Medicare Cuts Set to Take Effect Thursday
Senior citizens could face new obstacles to getting care, after payments are cut 21 percent

Sacramento — For the second time this year, Congress has failed to prevent deep cuts in Medicare reimbursements from taking effect, jeopardizing senior citizens’ access to healthcare.

Topics: Healthcare News and Updates, Medicare, reimbursement cuts, SDCMS News and Updates, SGR

SDCMS "News You Can Use" (2009.12.17)

Posted December 16th, 2009 in Health Policy, Managing Your Practice, News You Can Use

SDCMS "News You Can Use"
— December 18, 2009

Executive Director Personal Comment: I hope all of you take the time to enjoy the December issue of San Diego Physician magazine ("The Joy of Being a Doctor") to remember why you got into medicine!

Topics: consultation codes, H1N1, Healthcare News and Updates, Medicare, SDCMS News and Updates, SGR

House Passes HR 3961 — Legislation to Permanently Repeal the SGR (Nov. 19, 2009)

Posted November 19th, 2009 in Health Policy, Managing Your Practice

FROM CMA:

The U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 3961, a bill that would repeal the current Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), the formula that calls for annual cuts in Medicare physician payments. The 243–183 vote was largely on party lines.

Topics: Healthcare News and Updates, HR 3961, Medicare, SDCMS News and Updates, SGR, sustainable growth rate

SDCMS RECORDED TOWNHALL: Townhall With CMA CEO Joe Dunn (2008.12.04)

Posted January 30th, 2009 in Webinars, Health Policy

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RECORDING: Online Townhall With CMA’s CEO, Joe Dunn

TITLE: What Are the Issues We Face in the House of Medicine?

DATE: December 4, 2008

VIEW: Click Here

DESCRIPTION: Join Joe Dunn as he explicates the issues facing California’s physicians and the House of Medicine.

PRESENTERS: Joe Dunn, CMA CEO, and Tom Gehring, SDCMS CEO

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

Topics: balance billing, Corporate Bar, house of medicine, Medi-Cal, Medicare, MICRA, reimbursements, Scope of Practice, SDCMS News and Updates

SDCMS RECORDED SEMINAR: E-prescribing for Dummies (2009.02.24)

Posted January 20th, 2009 in Webinars, Health Policy

RECORDING: E-prescribing Resources for Member Physicians

TITLE: E-prescribing for Dummies

DATE: February 24, 2009

Topics: e-prescribing, EHR, EMR, Health Information Technology, HIT, Medicare, SDCMS News and Updates

California's Physicians and Seniors Urge Congress to Protect Access to Care by Strengthening Medicare

Posted November 18th, 2009 in Health Policy

The California Medical Association (CMA) and AARP are calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to pass HR 3961, which would ease the difficulty seniors now face in finding a physician who accepts Medicare. The legislation would repeal Medicare's flawed payment structure, known as the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), and replace it with a stable foundation that would encourage physician participation.

Topics: Healthcare News and Updates, HR 3961, Medicare, SDCMS News and Updates, SGR, sustainable growth rate formula

SDCMS and CMA Fight to Undo Deeply Flawed Medicare Formulas

Posted May 15th, 2009 in Health Policy

Note: The following letter, requesting GPCI reform, was sent to all San Diego County U.S. Representatives, asking them to co-sign the letter to Speaker Pelosi and Representative Farr.

April 6, 2009

Congresswoman Susan Davis
U.S. House of Representatives
1526 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Congressman Davis:

Topics: GPCI, Medicare, political advocacy, SDCMS News and Updates, SGR
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