Membership with CCMA and CMA is invaluable...

it gives you access to services and tools that will assist your personal and professional development and contributes to the overall strength of organized medicine.

Benefits of Membership

When you join the Central Coast Medical Association and California Medical Association, you hire a powerful professional staff to protect the viability of your practice. By protecting your practice from legal, legislative, and regulatory intrusions, your membership lets you focus on what’s really important: your patients.

CCMA Benefits

  • Membership Directory is a comprehensive listing of our physician members’ specialties and practice contact information, and is used daily by physicians, hospitals, medical personnel and a variety of businesses. 
  • Electronic newsletters focusing on practical issues encountered by physicians and their office staff. This newsletter provides information on new or updated compliance laws and general hints to make the practice run smoothly.
  • Mailing labels (one set complimentary per year) containing physicians’ office addresses are available to each member.
  • Professional/Collegial activities provide opportunity for physicians to be involved in political activities and to meet with colleagues for business or social purposes. 
  • Practice management workshops on topics such as OSHA and MediCare.
  • Office staffing is made more convenient for members who choose to use CCMA’s resource file of applicants who would like to work in a physician’s office or medical clinic.
  • 1000+ physician referrals are given per year by the CCMA office when patients need referrals to a doctor or request information about physicians listed on their health plans. CCMA provides information about members ONLY.
  • Trusted insurance advisors for your personal and business welfare are available through The Doctors Company and Lockton.
  • Maintaining relationships with state legislators who represent you. This contact allows CCMA to educate and influence our representatives when medical issues are debated and voted on in the state legislature.
     

CMA Benefits

  • Group Buying Discounts - Members can offset the price of their annual dues when using CMA membership services and discounts. Thanks to CMA’s group buying power, members receive deep discounts on everything from magazines to office supplies to insurance products. 
  • Legal Help - CMA's online health law library contains nearly 5,000 pages of On-Call documents and valuable information for physicians and their staff. Access to the library is free to members. Nonmembers can purchase documents for $2 per page in the resource library or by calling CMA’s member help center. CMA’s legal help line provides immediate assistance to physicians with questions on human resource, medical, regulatory or legal issues. This service is free to CMA members (not available to nonmembers). For assistance, call CMA’s member help center, 800.786.4262.
  • Practice Assistance - Highly trained economic advocates with expertise in physician reimbursement and medical business issues are available to provide one-on-one help to improve your bottom line. 
  • Practice Resources - CMA produces a number of resources to help practices of all sizes run smoothly. These resources include legal handbooks, HIPAA compliance toolkits, practice management guides, patient forms, and patient education materials. Many of these are free or deeply discounted for members.
  • Educational Programs - CMA provides timely, high quality educational programs for physician members and their staff. From highly-interactive in person seminars to live and on-demand webinars, CMA provides you with the information you need to run a successful medical practice.
  • News and Information - Members stay informed about public health, practice management, and other breaking health care news through our free member newsletter, CMA Newswire. The CMA website will also let you customize your website content and receive personalized updates on the issues that matter most to you and your practice. Learn More.
  • Answers for You and Your Staff - We are available to help you with everything important about your profession and your practice. Whatever you need – be it legal information, help with a problematic payor, or details about your member discounts and services – just call the member help line at 800.786.4262!