"News You Can Use" <> February 4, 2016 CONTENTS Register Today for Our March 10 Medicare Updates 2016 Seminar / Webinar Your Member Services Quiz Zika Virus Resources Report Your Patients’ Blood Pressure Readings as Part of Love Your Heart Day on Thursday, February 11 Apply for a Meaningful Use Exception by March 15 Are You Aware of the Meaningful Use Measures Changes? Noridian Posts Updated Medicare Physician Fee Schedule AMA Publishes Guide ... February 5, 2016 Medicare, Public Health Zika Virus 0 0 Comment Read More »
"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 »
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 »
"News You Can Use" <> April 7, 2015 CONTENTS Senate Delays Vote on SGR Until mid-April • CMS to Delay 21% Cuts Until Mid-month Mingle, Socialize, and Network With Your Fellow Physicians on Friday, April 24 Supreme Court Limits Avenues Providers Can Use to Sue States Over Medicaid Funding CMA Submits Letter to CMS Requesting Assessment of Medi-Cal Rates So What Have We Done for Our Members Lately? Work-Life Balance Workshop on Saturday, May 2 June ... April 7, 2015 Medi-Cal, Medicare, SGR Medi-Cal, SGR 0 0 Comment Read More »
"News You Can Use" <> October 8, 2014 CONTENTS Read SDCMS’s Special Oct. 3 “News You Can Use” on Ebola Virus Disease Read CAHAN San Diego's October 8 Alert on Travel Histories and Ebola Preparedness Top Docs Gala at the Birch Aquarium The SDCMS Foundation's 5K Run/Walk Was a Great Success! No on 46 Updates Free Tickets to the “Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code” Event on October 21, 6–9pm Leader’s Toolkit Seminar on October 25–26 for SDCMS ... October 8, 2014 Infectious Disease, Medicare, Prop 46 Ebola 0 0 Comment Read More »
"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 »