Physician-Assisted Suicide Has Been Legal in California for a Year. How’s it Going? California’s End of Life Option Act went into effect on June 9, 2016. The law created a process for dying patients to ask their doctors for a lethal prescription that the patients can then ingest privately, at home. Since then, at least 500 Californians have received life-ending prescriptions, according to newly released data collected by Compassion and Choices, an advocacy group that promotes aid-in-dying laws nationwide. Read More... June 8, 2017 General, Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
Providers, physicians will earn more under MACRA's MIPS program for many years, study says A new study by the Brookings Institution claims physicians would earn more in Medicare reimbursements under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System mandated by MACRA legislation than with other alternative payment models. Read More... July 14, 2016 General, Medicare 0 0 Comment Read More »
Maintaining your Medicare opt-out status Physicians who intend to opt-out, or who have previously opted-out of Medicare, should be aware of changes to the Medicare opt-out period as a result of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Action of 2015 (MACRA). Read More... June 10, 2016 General, Medicare 0 0 Comment Read More »
Panel: Painkiller training should be required for physicians WASHINGTON — Doctors who prescribe painkillers should be required to undergo training aimed at reducing misuse and abuse of the medications, according to federal health experts, though they acknowledge the challenge of putting such a mandate in place. Read More... May 5, 2016 General, Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
Medi-Cal’s Doctor Sign-Up System Finally Going Online Medi-Cal’s enrollment system for doctors and other health care providers, long criticized in the medical community for being complicated and slow, is getting an overdue transformation. Read More... May 3, 2016 General, Insurance, Medi-Cal 0 0 Comment Read More »
