CMA publishes guide for patients and physicians impacted by Southern California wildfires

Wed, 15 Jan 2025

CMA has published a guide to help ensure patients continue to have appropriate access to medically necessary health care services. 

FAQ: What is the status of the 2024 and 2025 Medi-Cal rate increases? 

Tue, 14 Jan 2025

CMA recently published a fact sheet that provides an overview of and status update on both the 2024 targeted rate increases and the 2025 Prop 35 increases.

CMA Statement on the Governor’s Proposed Budget

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

CMA President Shannon Udovic-Constant, M.D., issued the following statement in response to Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed 2025-26 budget:

Insurance regulators tell payors to remove barriers to care for those affected by wildfires

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

California regulators tell insurance companies they must act quickly to ensure patients affected by the SoCal wildfires have access to medically necessary care without unnecessary barriers.

Help physicians affected by the wildfires: Donate to the PHC Disaster Relief Fund

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

Donations to the Disaster Relief Fund will be used to reestablish the delivery of medical care to areas of California affected by disasters by providing physicians who are victims of disasters with financial assistance to help restore their medical practices.

CMA working to ease burden on physicians and patients affected by Southern California wildfires

Thu, 09 Jan 2025

To ensure physicians can continue to provide care to their patients during and after the devastating Southern California wildfires, CMA is working with state and federal regulators to help to ease the burden on physicians during this difficult time.

Medi-Cal phasing out transaction services, providers must use Provider Portal

Wed, 08 Jan 2025

Medi-Cal is phasing out the legacy Transaction Services and will require all providers to log in via the Provider Portal. Practices who are not already registered for the portal should do so asap!

Reminder: Medi-Cal Rx to reinstate prior auth requirements for pediatric claims

Wed, 08 Jan 2025

Medi-Cal Rx will reinstate claim edits and prior authorization requirements for patients 21 years of age and younger on January 31, 2025.

Biden signs bill to avoid a government shutdown, but Congress fails to stop devastating Medicare payment cut

Sat, 21 Dec 2024

Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown, passing a bill to keep the government funded late last night. 

House passes stopgap bill that extends expiring health programs but does not stop Medicare physician payment cut

Fri, 20 Dec 2024

Congress is poised to pass a Continuing Resolution to avoid a government shutdown. While the bill does extend expiring health programs, it does not stop the 2.8% Medicare physician pay cut. When inflation is factored in, this is in effect a 6.4% cut. The House passed the bill tonight, and the Senate is expected to pass the bill later this weekend.