HOW TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR MAUI The Hawaii Medical Association (HMA) has created a Maui Support page with information on donating, volunteering and other important resources for locals. Please help us share this information! This webpage will be regularly updated with new information so please check back frequently. Thank you to the Hawaii Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics: Maui Resources — Home (aaphawaii.org) and other community partners from whom resources have been tapped. Last updated, 8/16/23 at 8:37 pm Hawaii time. Please click on the topics below for faster navigation: Seeking Physician Volunteers Latest Resources and News Med-Quest/CMS ... August 17, 2023 CMA, General donations, Maui Support, volunteering, wildfire relief 0 0 Comment Read More »
NEW PUBLIC SERVICE LOAN FORGIVENESS PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY FOR CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS CMA has won a significant victory in expanding the Federal Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program for California physicians who were previously blocked from participating in the program. The new program started on July 1, 2023. It provides loan forgiveness for physicians who work in nonprofit hospitals, foundations, clinics, or other health care entities 30 hours/week for approximately 10 years. It will also help many medical groups recruit more physicians to California. CMA has published a guide to help physicians navigate the program. The most up-to-date version of this guide will always ... August 7, 2023 CMA, Physician Workforce loan forgiveness program 0 0 Comment Read More »
DEADLINE: HIPAA Compliant Video Communications Tools for Telehealth by August 10, 2023 When the COVID-19 public health emergency expired on May 11, 2023, the U.S. Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the end of flexibilities that allowed physicians to utilize remote communication technologies for telehealth services that did not fully comply with HIPAA rules. OCR provided a 90-calendar day transition period for covered health care providers to come into compliance with the HIPAA rules for telehealth. The transition period will expire at 11:59 p.m. on August 9, 2023, at which time physicians will be expected to utilize only HIPAA-compliant communication ... July 27, 2023 CMA, COVID19, General, Healthcare, Insurance, legislation, Patient Care, Public Health HIPAA, telehealth, virtual appointments 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMA Hosting Webinar on Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan Transition At the end of 2022, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) reached an agreement with five commercial managed care plans (MCP) to deliver Medi-Cal services in 21 counties across the state starting in January 2024. As a result, approximately 1.2 million Medi-Cal patients will be required to transition to a new a new health plan, and in some counties Medi-Cal patients will have the ability to select from more than one plan. DHCS recently updated its 2024 MCP Transition Policy Guide to include a table that lists Medi-Cal managed care plan changes ... July 24, 2023 Advocacy, CMA, General, Healthcare, Insurance, legislation, Medi-Cal, Patient Care DHCS, managed care, medi-cal, webinar 0 0 Comment Read More »
HISTORICAL MEDI-CAL BUDGET BILL SUPPORTED BY CMA Donaldo Hernandez, M.D., the president of the California Medical Association (CMA), issued the following statement in response to the introduction of a bill to renew the state’s Managed Care Organization (MCO) Tax and invest in the Medi-Cal system: “Physicians applaud the Governor and legislative leaders for their work to seize the tremendous, generational opportunity before us to renew the MCO Tax and use its revenue to fulfill the promise of Medi-Cal to provide meaningful access to care for the most vulnerable Californians. This investment in Medi-Cal means that millions of patients will have ... June 27, 2023 CMA, General, Healthcare, legislation, Patient Care, Public Health budget, CMA President, historical bill 0 0 Comment Read More »
