Members: Is your health insurance open enrollment coming up soon? Open enrollment time is right around the corner. Are your rates going up? Want to shop around? The California Medical Association (CMA) sponsored health insurance program with Mercer can help. Whether you are an individual policyholder or a member of a group health plan, CMA members have access to best-in-class insurance programs for individuals and small groups through Mercer. The open enrollment period for individual and family plans starts on November 1, 2016. Many practices have open enrollment periods for small groups on December 1 or January 1. Whether you are covering yourself or you are responsible for providing coverage for your family or employees, Mercer can help you get you the benefits you need, utilizing the physicians you want to see, at a price that fits your budget. Working with the largest insurers in California, Mercer can help you determine what’s best for you. For more information, contact Mercer at (800) 842-3761 or CMACounty.Insurance.service@mercer.com, or visit www.countycmamemberinsurance.com. Mercer Health & Benefits Insurance Services LLC • CA Insurance License #0G39709 75290 (10/16) • Copyright 2016 Mercer LLC. All rights reserved. 777 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017 • (800) 842-3761 • www.CountyCMAMemberInsurance.com • CMACounty.Insurance.service@mercer.com November 7, 2016 CMA, General Member Benefits 0 0 Comment Read More »
New Member Benefit: Members save 50% on DaisyBill RBRVS Calculator The California Medical Association (CMA) is pleased to announce a new valuable benefit for CMA members – 50 percent off DaisyBill’s workers' compensation RBRVS Calculator, plus a special introductory rate of 80 percent off through the end of June. That works out to $9.80 per user per month until June, then $24.50 per month thereafter. With DaisyBill’s calculator, you can quickly and easily determine the correct reimbursement amount for workers’ compensation medical services. This is time and money saving benefit will help physician practices make sense of California’s new RBRVS-based workers' compensation reimbursement schedule, which went into effect on January 1, 2014. The new regulations are voluminous and wide-ranging, and include: 15,635 codes Six changing fee schedules California-specific codes and payment rules 1,000+ codes eliminated Entirely different methods to calculate fees Adoption of Medicare billing rules Exceptions to Medicare billing rules For workers’ compensation, the change to an RBRVS-based system constitutes not just a change in the reimbursement amount for all treatment provided to injured workers, but also constitutes a major shift in the manner in which bills are submitted for this treatment. For example, providers must now be aware of new coding specifics such as which OMFS codes can no longer be used and that the reimbursement amount for all E/M codes increased for dates of service as of January 1, 2014. With DaisyBill’s RBRVS Calculator it takes minutes to adapt to the new RBRVS billing processes. Don’t struggle, instead use DaisyBill’s calculator to immediately: Correct your superbill by replacing old codes with the new RBRVS codes Know the new reimbursement amounts for all treatment codes The DaisyBill RBRVS Calculator seamlessly integrates the many variables that are now required for calculations. DaisyBill’s calculator also works for all dates of service — both before and after the implementation of the RBRVS fee schedules. To take advantage of your CMA member discount, a special discount code is needed. Click here to get your code or contact CMA's member service center at (800) 786-4262 or memberservice@cmanet.org. March 12, 2014 General Member Benefits, Member Discounts, Workers Compensation, Insurance/Reimbursement 0 0 Comment Read More »
New Member Benefit: Prescriber's Letter The California Medical Association (CMA) is pleased to announce that members can now receive 43 percent off Prescriber’s Letter (PL) subscriptions. PL is an advisory service for physicians and other prescribers, to keep them up to date on new developments in drug therapy. PL provides unbiased recommendations that help you improve patient compliance, avoid costly medication errors and prescribe cost-effectively. PL helps you get drug-related facts quickly and digest them easily. PL's “to-the-point” approach means that you can learn about the most pressing drug therapy issues in about 15 minutes. Plus you can get evidence-based details online anytime you wish. Subscribe at the special CMA member rate of $147/yr (regularly $257) and get the monthly Prescriber’s Letter, online access to PL Detail-Documents, PLUS the opportunity to earn evidence-based continuing medical education (CME) credits from reading the Letter, and point-of-care credit when you search the database for answers. Subscribers also get access to the PL VOICES Clinical Webinar Series, where you can hear the experts debate significant therapeutic dilemmas, and get additional CME credits, for a total of up to 56 per year. Go to www.PrescribersLetter.com/CMA to learn more and get the special CMA member rate. October 31, 2013 General Member Benefits, Prescription Drugs, Drug Prescribing 0 0 Comment Read More »
