"News You Can Use" <> May 13, 2014 CONTENTS Seminar on Financial and Legal Life Skills SDCMS’s 2014 White Coat Gala on Saturday, June 14, 2014 East County Physician Networking Opportunity & Mixer on July 10 SEIU California Has Joined the Broad-based Coalition to Defeat the Trial Lawyer-backed Anti-MICRA Ballot Measure Got “Access-to-Care” Horror Stories From Covered California or Medi-Cal? Two Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Cases in the U.S. Pertussis Cases Increase in San Diego ... May 13, 2014 Cal MediConnect, Covered California, Medi-Cal, Medicare, Member Social, MICRA Cal MediConnect, Covered California, Medi-Cal, MERS, MICRA, Pertussis 0 0 Comment Read More »
"News You Can Use" <> April 24, 2014 CONTENTS: Vendor-agnostic, Free, Members-only Workshop on Financial and Legal Life Skills Executive Director Comment: Two More Examples of Tangible Member Benefits Caveat Signor: Read Very, Very Carefully the Anthem Exchange Addendum Language The San Diego U-T Publishes Article on Our GPCI WIN — Front Page, Above the Fold! SDCMS’s 2014 White Coat Gala on Saturday, June 14, 2014 Labor Unions Announce Opposition to MICRA Lawsuit Initiative Commit to ... April 29, 2014 GPCI, MICRA All Products Clauses, Anthem Exchange Addendum, GPCI, MICRA 0 0 Comment Read More »
Special "News You Can Use" on SGR, GPCI, and ICD-10 Click Here to Read the April 5 U-T San Diego Article Titled: "State Medicare Reimbursements to Rise" Executive Director Comments: After almost a decade of struggle, the GPCI inequity for San Diego County is finally resolved — and this is not, repeat not, an April Fool’s joke. Yesterday evening, the president signed HR 4302 / S 2000, the details of which can be read by clicking here, which does three big things plus a lot of other little stuff that we'll talk about in future NYCUs: kicks the can down ... April 2, 2014 GPCI, ICD-10, SGR GPCI, ICD-10, SGR 0 0 Comment Read More »
"News You Can Use" <> March 31, 2014 CONTENTS: Save the Date: San Diego-wide Physician Networking Opportunity & Mixer This Thursday, April 3 The MICRA fight is on! SDCMS Members Can Get Your Photo Professionally Taken Practice Management Reminders The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Is Saturday, April 26 Two San Diego Wound Botulism Cases Associated With Black Tar Heroin Injection New Measles Case Confirmed in San Diego CMS Suspends RAC Audits, ... March 31, 2014 Cal MediConnect, MICRA Cal MediConnect, MICRA 0 0 Comment Read More »
"News You Can Use" <> March 12, 2014 CONTENTS Victory on SGR Is Within Reach, but Our Representatives and Senators Need to Hear Form You! Save the Date: San Diego-wide Physician Networking Opportunity & Mixer on April 3 Practice Management Reminders Got Implementation Problems With Covered California? Two More Measles Cases Confirmed in San Diego All Physicians: Please Take an HIV Survey Do You Want to Participate in CMS’s Voluntary Medicare ICD-10 End-End Testing? ... March 12, 2014 CURES SGR 0 0 Comment Read More »
Urgent "News You Can Use" <> Please Act Today to Repeal & Replace the SGR! Physicians: Call Your Congressperson and Senators Today to Repeal and Replace the SGR! A bill to permanently repeal Medicare’s fatally flawed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula is finally before Congress: The SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014 (HR 1415 / S 2000). There is significant pushback from non-physician groups, so Congress needs to hear from every San Diego County physician today that this matters and that it must pass! We don't want Congress to kick the can down the road AGAIN! 1) Please Contact All Three of Your Federal ... March 5, 2014 GPCI, Medicare, SGR GPCI, Medicare, SGR 0 0 Comment Read More »