RETAINING
CPLH2015
INDEPENDENCE WHILE EMBRACING ACCOUNTABILITY:
Centers for Medicare and
80% OF DOCTORS
1.4 MILLION INDIVIDUALS
Medicaid Services (CMS) has
use a mobile device at work
in 2014 joined Covered California
that offer physicians the
9,935 CASES OF PERTUSSIS were reported in 2014
Care Coordination
Over the past six years, the
launched a number of initiatives opportunity to increase their net
and integration strategies for small physician practices
revenue by participating in quality
OVER $7 MILLION
reporting programs. Until now, most of these programs have
in HIPAA breach penalties.
Physicians throughout the country are trying to figure out how to best
been voluntary and physicians
achieve their professional goals in the changing health care delivery
have received bonuses for 1 IN 4 ELDERLY PATIENTS will need someone to make end-of-life medical decisions
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environment. Physician payments are increasingly being structured in a way that incentivizes quality and cost effectiveness over volume,
participating. That’s about to
to avoid Medicare penalties in 2015
of healthcare fraud-related crimes in 2014
and many place physicians at financial risk. In addition, public
change. Failure to participate
reporting of physicians’ performance will now be the norm, rather than
now means physicians could face
the exception, with Medicare’s expansion of its Physician Compare
significant penalties.
website in 2013. Will physicians need to be employed by a hospital or a large medical group or health system in order to provide the quality and manage the costs that these payment and reporting systems require and take advantage of the emerging opportunities resulting from health system reform?
Contact: CMA’s member service center, (800) 786-4262 or memberservice@cmanet.org
Not necessarily. While some physicians may ultimately decide that formal alignment with a large medical group or hospital system is their best option, others are actively working to integrate new care coordination and accountability capabilities into their smaller practices. Indeed, there are a number of avenues that physicians in smaller practices can take that will allow them to retain their independence while also achieving the new capabilities they will need to succeed in this new environment.
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CMA Sets Agenda > 2013
2015 BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES SUMMIT Helping Health Providers Address Social Determinants of Health September 18-20, 2015 • Riverside Convention Center • Riverside, CA
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May 13 - 15, 2016
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CMA sets agenda for 2013
Brought to you by the Network of Ethnic Physician Organizations (NEPO) and the California Medical Association Foundation
For more than 150 years, the California Medical Association (CMA) has fought on the frontlines of nearly every major policy, political, budgetary, societal and legal campaign affecting the state’s physicians. The shared challenges facing physicians are more formidable today than ever. As California and the rest of the nation faces a time of unique budgetary challenges and monumental change in health care, it is more critical than ever before that physicians come together with a unified voice to advocate for the profession and for the health and well being of the patients we serve. In January 2013 the CMA Board of Trustees adopted five distinct goals for the association this year. Below are details of each of those goals.
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Physicians and nurses, medical practice managers and all other health care and/or health care related professionals prepare for changes affecting your profession, your practice and your economic future in the heart of San Francisco.
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Opening session previewing 2016 Presidential election and the impacts on health care, featuring former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush Karl Rove and Al Gore campaign manager and Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Donna Brazile.
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