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California Medical Association sues state over doctor licensing delays
A new suit filed by the California Medical Association claims that furloughs instituted by the state have unacceptably slowed the state medical board's processing of applicants for physician... Read more...
Doctor forms group to fight health plan-based scrutiny
Virtually every doctor has cursed the process by which health plans review their decisions and approve or disapprove of treatments--usually without having ever met or even spoken with the patient.... Read more...
UnitedHealthcare contracts stop making no-warning fee changes
UnitedHealthcare has announced that it will soon revise contracts that allowed it to lower physician pay without notice. The change, which will affect about 70,000 doctors across the U.S., should... Read more...
Balance billing ban upheld
In yet another chapter in the ongoing saga of balance billing, a judge in Sacramento recently affirmed state regulations looking to protect consumers from the practice. Last month, physicians in... Read more...
California balance billing ban challenged in court
California physicians were already up in arms about the new ban on balance billing before it even went into effect. So it's little wonder that they have wasted no time in challenging the ban in... Read more...
CA court won't delay 10 percent Medicaid rate cut
A California state court has dashed the hopes of the state's providers, ruling that the state's new 10 percent cut in its Medicaid should move ahead. A group of powerful medical associations,... Read more...
CA insurers spent less than 85 percent of revenue on care
A new report by the California Medical Association concludes that nine of the state's major health plans spent less than 85 percent of their revenue on medical care for their beneficiaries, a level... Read more...
