News Service
August 2020
- Urgent Advocacy Alert: California Members -- AB 890 Updates CAL/AAEM News Service
- URGENT: CAL/AAEM Advocacy Needed on Bill AB890 CAL/AAEM News Service
- URGENT: CAL/AAEM Advocacy Needed on Bill AB890 CAL/AAEM News Service
June 2020
- AAEM Signs on to AMA Letter: Coronavirus Provider Protection Act CAL/AAEM News Service
May 2020
- Call Your Representatives to Reject Budget Proposal to Take Away Prop 56 Funds for Supplemental Payments, -and- Revised state budget proposal includes major health care cuts CAL/AAEM News Service
- FOR AAEM MEMBERS -- Cast Your Ballot in the 2020 AAEM Board of Directors Election CAL/AAEM News Service
- Last Call for Nominations for CAL/AAEM Board of Directors, deadline 11:59p tonight May 1st CAL/AAEM News Service
April 2020
- Call for COVID-19 Articles - AAEM Common Sense CAL/AAEM News Service
March 2020
- AAEM Creates Additional Position Statements Regarding COVID-19 CAL/AAEM News Service
- AAEM Position Statement on Protections for EPs during COVID-19 CAL/AAEM News Service
February 2020
- Defending MICRA - Again; Help Protect Access and Control Health Care Costs for CA Patients CAL/AAEM News Service
January 2020
- NP Scope Expansion Bill Is Moving Forward - Urge NO Vote on AB 890! CAL/AAEM News Service
- Launching of the Mediterranean Journal of Emergency Medicine & Acute Care (MedJEM) CAL/AAEM News Service
- Senate Bill (SB) 425 CAL/AAEM News Service
- Oppose AB 890 today - Nurse practitioners: scope of practice, unsupervised practice. CAL/AAEM News Service
- Don't Miss Out - Register for the Feb. 1st Southern California Symposium sponsored by CAL/AAEM and AAEM/RSA Today! CAL/AAEM News Service
- Submit Your Feedback to CMS - Medicare Executive Order on Scope of Practice CAL/AAEM News Service
December 2019
- Register Today: Southern California EM Symposium sponsored by CALAAEM and AAEMRSA CAL/AAEM News Service
- Updates - Southern California EM Symposium Feb. 1, 2020 sponsored by CAL/AAEM and AAEM/RSA CAL/AAEM News Service
- Congress Must Protect Patient Access When Addressing Surprise Billing CAL/AAEM News Service
- California Surprise-Billing Law Protects Patients But Aggravates Many Doctors CAL/AAEM News Service
November 2019
- Save the Date: Southern California Symposium Sponsored by CAL/AAEM and AAEM/RSA CAL/AAEM News Service
September 2019
- Contact Your Senators and Representatives: Surprise Billing CAL/AAEM News Service
- Urge Congress to Support H.R. 3502 CAL/AAEM News Service
August 2019
- How California's surprise billing policy led to healthcare consolidation CAL/AAEM News Service
- What It Takes to Make a Doctor -- from AAEM/RSA CAL/AAEM News Service
July 2019
- Open Letter to the AMA: Where is the Public Campaign Advocating for Physicians? CAL/AAEM News Service
- CMA urges Congress to follow New York's successful surprise billing model CAL/AAEM News Service
June 2019
- State Budget Deal Expands Health Care to Undocumented Young Adults and Subsidies to Middle-Income Families CAL/AAEM News Service
May 2019
- As ER Wait Times Grow, More Patients Leave Against Medical Advice CAL/AAEM News Service
- Trump Throws Support Behind Fix For Surprise Medical Bills, But Hurdles Remain CAL/AAEM News Service
- Taking the surprise out of surprise billing CAL/AAEM News Service
April 2019
- Facing Escalating Workplace Violence, Hospital Employees Have Had Enough CAL/AAEM News Service
- Why Did AAEM Take a Stand Against APP Independent Practice? CAL/AAEM News Service
March 2019
- Report: 8,000 medical practices acquired by hospitals in 18 months CAL/AAEM News Service
February 2019
- CMS launches new model for paying ambulance crews-even if they don't transport to the ER CAL/AAEM News Service
- How states can take the lead on mitigating surprise out-of-network billing, -AND Hospital groups push for seat at table as lawmakers address 'surprise billing' CAL/AAEM News Service
January 2019
- California Hospitals Strive To Comply With New Homeless Patient Laws, But Say Lack Of Resources Makes It Tough CAL/AAEM News Service
- AAEM Scientific Assembly, March 10-13 in Las Vegas CAL/AAEM News Service
- Despite an opioid crisis, most ERs don't offer addiction treatment. California is changing that CAL/AAEM News Service
- Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes healthcare mandate, Medi-Cal expansion to more immigrants without legal status CAL/AAEM News Service
- CMA expresses serious concerns over implementation of new security prescription requirement CAL/AAEM News Service
December 2018
- Millions of Americans Could Face Surprise Emergency Room Bills in January CAL/AAEM News Service
October 2018
- Insurers could deny 1 in 6 ER visits if they were to adopt Anthem policy, JAMA says CAL/AAEM News Service
July 2018
- Tulare hospital district settles suit with former medical staff CAL/AAEM News Service
June 2018
- Health Net to rescind modifier 25 and emergency services payment policies CAL/AAEM News Service
- ER STAFFING SPLIT ALONG URBAN-RURAL DIVIDE CAL/AAEM News Service
- 2018-2019 CAL/AAEM Board of Directors - Election Results CAL/AAEM News Service
- CMA urges Health Net to rescind recently announced payment policies CAL/AAEM News Service
May 2018
- Contact California State Assembly Appropriations Committee members today and ask them to oppose AB 3087 CAL/AAEM News Service
- Health Net to delay modifier 25 and emergency services policy changes until July 1 CAL/AAEM News Service
April 2018
- 2018 AAEM Board of Directors Election Results, -and- CAL/AAEM Board Nominations deadline April 16th CAL/AAEM News Service
- Contact State Assembly Health Committee members and ask them to oppose AB 3087 CAL/AAEM News Service
March 2018
- Ten ERs In Colorado Tried To Curtail Opioids And Did Better Than Expected CAL/AAEM News Service
- Anthem Revises 'Avoidable' ED Visit Policy in MO, KY and GA -AND- A break for doctors: Trump administration wants to reduce reporting burden under MIPS CAL/AAEM News Service
- Robert Pearl: Kaiser Permanente modifies ER staffing to meet patient demand, improve efficiency -AND- Unequal Medicare payments fuel health care consolidation trends CAL/AAEM News Service
February 2018
- Trump signs $400B budget deal that funds healthcare programs, reopens government after overnight shutdown CAL/AAEM News Service
- Standalone ERs may have grown too fast in Texas, but other states continue to embrace them CAL/AAEM News Service
- Healthcare groups renew push for single-payer system in California CAL/AAEM News Service
January 2018
- Survey: 42% of Physicians Report Burnout, Some Cite Depression CAL/AAEM News Service
December 2017
- Is it an emergency? Insurer makes patients question ER visit CAL/AAEM News Service
November 2017
- Anthem Blue Cross announces plans to significantly cut reimbursement on E/M services with modifier 25 CAL/AAEM News Service
August 2017
- When High Deductibles Hurt: Even Insured Patients Postpone Care -AND- With Tom Price in charge at the Department of Health and Human Services, doctors are winning in Washington CAL/AAEM News Service
July 2017
- House votes to limit damages from medical malpractice lawsuits CAL/AAEM News Service
- CBO Deals Blow To Senate Health Bill With Estimate Of 22 Million More Uninsured -AND- Telemedicine Is Wide-Reaching But Doesn't Always Replace Doctor's Touch CAL/AAEM News Service
- Senate GOP unveils draft of healthcare overhaul bill -AND- Final budget agreement provides over $1 billion to improve Medi-Cal provider payments CAL/AAEM News Service
- Half a Million Clinicians Face 2% Medicare Penalty This Year -AND- Senate Health Bill Would Revamp Medicaid, Alter ACA Guarantees, Cut Premium Support CAL/AAEM News Service
- Medi-Cal Patients Flocking To ERs More Than Before ACA -AND- California ER use jumps despite Medicaid expansion CAL/AAEM News Service
June 2017
- Practice owners no longer the physician majority CAL/AAEM News Service
- California's New Single-Payer Proposal Embraces Some Costly Old Ways -AND- What would California's proposed single-payer healthcare system mean for me? CAL/AAEM News Service
- Tipping point: AMA study finds physician practice owners no longer the majority -AND- California Senate backs longshot single-payer care bill CAL/AAEM News Service
May 2017
- Governor's revised budget diverts tobacco tax revenue for general fund obligations instead of improving access to care for Medi-Cal patients -AND- Hospitals worry about the 23 million that would lose coverage under AHCA CAL/AAEM News Service
- California Hospitals Lose Ground In Quality Of Care, Report Card Shows -AND- Opioid prescriptions in CA dropped 17 percent since 2013 CAL/AAEM News Service
- Top 10 highlights in new AHCA bill -AND- Fate of Obamacare now is in the Senate CAL/AAEM News Service
April 2017
- Kaiser Permanente chief says members are flocking to virtual visits CAL/AAEM News Service
- TRMC: Doctors, hospital battle in court -AND- N.Y. hedge fund eyes control of battered Adeptus CAL/AAEM News Service
- California bill for universal health care creates higher taxes, single-payer system CAL/AAEM News Service
March 2017
- CMA unveils plan to recoup Prop 56 funding to improve access to care CAL/AAEM News Service
- House Republican leaders release ACA repeal legislation -AND- What's in the Obamacare replacement bill, anyway? 13 things to know about the ACA repeal bill CAL/AAEM News Service
- CAL/AAEM Endorses Two Candidates for the AAEM Board Election CAL/AAEM News Service
- Uninsured rate in California drops to record low, CDC estimates -AND- House Releases ACA Repeal, Replace Bill That Transforms Medicaid CAL/AAEM News Service
- CAL/AAEM Endorses Two Candidates for the AAEM Board Election CAL/AAEM News Service
February 2017
- Price confirmed as HHS Secretary -AND- After Two Megadeals Blocked, Health Insurers Plot Next Moves CAL/AAEM News Service
- Surprise medical bills a costly problem for health plans, study says -AND- TeamHealth will pay $60 million to settle CMS overbilling claims CAL/AAEM News Service
- Parties in Summa Health staffing dispute agree on little -AND- California's Community Clinics, Big ACA Beneficiaries, Worry About Their Future CAL/AAEM News Service
- Governor Brown's proposed budget ignores the will of Proposition 56 voters; further burdens Medi-Cal system -AND- MedPAC wants to give hospitals and doctors raises, flag offsite ER claims CAL/AAEM News Service
January 2017
- AAEM Statement on USACS Replacement at Summa Health CAL/AAEM News Service
- The End of Obamacare -AND- Paul Ryan pledges ACA repeal, replacement in 2017; Democrats urge caution CAL/AAEM News Service
- Outlook for 2017: Rise of high-deductible plans has providers boosting collection efforts -AND- Doctors group warns against loss of coverage from ObamaCare repeal CAL/AAEM News Service
- No easy answers to physician burnout -AND- California Hopes $3 Billion Experiment Will Improve Health Of Neediest CAL/AAEM News Service
December 2016
- Major changes for Medicaid coming under Trump and the GOP -AND- Trump's healthcare 'dream team': Rep. Tom Price to head HHS, Seema Verma to lead CMS CAL/AAEM News Service
- Physicians besieged by 'burnout, ' pessimistic view of profession, Physicians Foundation study says CAL/AAEM News Service
- Calif. Supreme Court says HMOs are on the hook for clients' emergency bills -AND- The End of Obamacare CAL/AAEM News Service
- What happens to Medicaid in California under a Trump administration? -AND- MACRA will move forward largely untouched when Trump steps in, experts say CAL/AAEM News Service
November 2016
- TeamHealth bought by Blackstone Group for $6.1 billion -AND- Blackstone purchase of TeamHealth offers turnaround promise outside of public view CAL/AAEM News Service
- Myth Busted: ED Docs Not a Prime Source of Opioid Prescriptions CAL/AAEM News Service
- Study finds fewer California physicians accept Medi-Cal despite a surge in patients CAL/AAEM News Service
- Scarcity Of Mental Health Care Means Patients - Especially Kids - Land In ER CAL/AAEM News Service
October 2016
- More employers join push for value-based healthcare CAL/AAEM News Service
- Boom in free-standing emergency centers raises questions about regulation CAL/AAEM News Service