Legislative Advocacy
We are proud of our reputation as a lobbying powerhouse. Our political successes are among the most distinguished in California. We are overwhelmingly successful in winning lawmaking battles and equally effective in changing and blocking contentious legislation that could adversely impact physicians and their patients.

• Managed Care Reform - Doctors must be allowed to take care of patients. We expose unfair medical practices, regulatory issues, inadequate compensation and other initiatives that compromise the doctor-patient relationship.
  
  
• Actuarially Sound Capitation Rates - We work to insure that capitation rates are based on actuarially sound data, rather than on what the market will bear, and to allow physicians to be compensated at a rate that assures quality and continuity of care.
  
  
• MICRA- Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act - We helped establish and continually protect this landmark tort reform, which keeps professional liability premiums affordable for California physicians.

Legislative Leadership
CMA's Annual Legislative Leadership Day. Meet at State Capitol with legislators. Provides unique opportunity to see how the legislative process works.

Economic Advocacy

• Medical Groups/IPAs Insolvency/Bankruptcy Assistance - SBCMS/CMA provides assistance to medical groups, IPAs and their subcontracting specialists facing insolvency, closure or bankruptcy. Assistance focuses on bankruptcy court filings, payment for unpaid claims, maintaining physician-patient relationships, forming new groups/IPAs, and future protections.
  
  
• Reimbursement HotLine (1-888-401-5911) for direct assistance with reimbursement problems and/or to report concerns and trends that physicians are observing in reimbursement for their services.
  
  
• Contract Analysis - CMA attorneys provide detailed analysis of your contracts including managed care, hospital based, recruitment, employment, and independent contractor contracts as well as billing service agreements.

Legal Advocacy
We hold health plans responsible for unpaid claims to physicians who have provided medically necessary care.

• CMA Class-Action RICO Lawsuit vs. For-Profit Health Plans - CMA filed a class-action lawsuit against California's three major for-profit health plans. The lawsuit is about preserving the viability of California health care delivery system where the legislature, the courts, state regulators, and the market have failed to address critical issues. The lawsuit seeks to use RICO statues based on the notion that these plans willfully underfunded the health care they pledged to purchasers and to patients.
  
  
• CMA "On-Call" a 24-hour information on demand fax and internet service with 200+ medical-legal summaries and related practice advisories fax service: (800) 592-4CMA or www.cmanet.org.

Promotion & Representation of all Members

• Eight Mode of Practice Forums representing Solo/Small Group, Medium-size, Large and Very Large Groups, Administrative Medicine, Academic Practice, Hospital-Based Practice, and Government-Employed.
  
  
• Representation for Women, Ethnic, Young Physicians, House Officers, Medical Specialties, Hospital Medical Staffs and Medical Students.

Publications

• Monthly Southern California Physician magazine
  
  
• Quarterly California Physician
  
  
• Membership and Medical Resource Directory
  
  
• California Physician's Legal Handbook
  
  
• CMA Alert, concise legislative and legal update, sent weekly via e-mail.
  
  
• Inland Empire FaxFacts, a bi-monthly fax with local, state and national updates.

World Wide Web Services
CMA www.cmanet.org and SBCMS www.sbcms.org have web sites with areas for both physicians and the public.

Educational Programs

• CMA's Annual Leadership Academy
  
  
• Practice Management Seminars
  
  
• Medical Office Manager Forums
  
  
• Town Hall Meetings on current legislation, regulation & medical policy issues
  
  
• CMA's Continuing Medical Education Accreditation

Business/Personal Insurance

• Physicians' Family Healthcare with Dental Option
  
  
• Dental Insurance
  
  
• Long Term Disability
  
  
• Group Universal Life Insurance
  
  
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment
  
  
• Long Term Care
  
  
• Workers' Compensation
  
  
• Physician-owned professional liability insurance

Member Services and Sponsored Programs
We want to help you define a better path to success - both in and out of the office. As a SBCMS member, we invite you to take advantage of these discounted services and SBCMS-endorsed businesses to meet your unique needs.

• Discounts on temporary & permanent front and back office personnel - Pro-Tem Personnel (909) 784-0480.
  
  
• Discounted tax audit defense - prepaid income tax audit protection TaxResources, Inc. (800) 922-8348.
  
  
• Discounts on cellular and paging services: Tele-Cell, Inc. (800) 366-2222.
  
  
• Discounted healthcare consulting services - The Fox Group (909) 931-7600.
  
  
• Financial and Investment Counseling- receive professional guidance in developing a strategy for your financial success - Physicians Asset Management (800) 852- 3284.
  
  
• Office Depot Discount Program - 5-10% savings on over 370 of the most popular and frequently purchased office supplies. Call the Medical Society for details.
  
  
• Shred-it - Discounts offered to members through Shred-it (909) 272-4708