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The Senate is now considering HR 1, which threatens billions in Medicaid funding. If passed, states may be forced to cut coverage, eliminate benefits, or raise taxes. Your advocacy made a huge impact in the House—now we need that same energy in the Senate.

Thanks to support from Kaiser Permanente, the Protect Our Health Care Coalition has launched a voter-to-voter texting campaign. It's fast, easy, and impactful. More...

CMA-sponsored prior authorization bills advance

In a major step toward reducing delays in care and improving patient outcomes, three bills from the California Medical Association’s (CMA) Prioritizing Patients, Empowering Physicians legislative package have advanced out of their house of origin in the California State Legislature. These CMA-sponsored bills aim to streamline and reform the state’s broken prior authorization system, which has long delayed or denied medically necessary care and overburdened physicians with unnecessary red tape. More...

Medical Board begins phasing out paper renewals

Effective for licenses that expire June 30, 2025, the Medical Board of California will no longer accept or process paper-based renewals for a Physician’s and Surgeon’s (P&S) License. Licenses expiring on or after June 30 must be renewed through the BreEZe online system. 

The medical board will continue sending license renewal information (including instructions and reminders) to licensees via email. To verify or update your email address, visit www.breeze.ca.gov and login to your account. More...

Senate unanimously passes CMA-sponsored bill to cut prior authorization delays

In a unanimous vote, the California State Senate has passed SB 306 (Becker)—the Defending Physicians Decisions Act, a California Medical Association (CMA)-sponsored bill aimed at eliminating unnecessary delays to patient care caused by routine prior authorization requirements.

Authored by Senator Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park), SB 306 tackles one of the most persistent administrative barriers in health care by removing prior authorization for services that health plans approved at least 90% of the time over the previous year. More...

7 Steps to cut doctors' regulatory burdens in your organization

More than 600 regulatory requirements govern U.S. hospitals, health systems and post-acute care clinicians—requirements that can add costs, hinder patient care and fuel physician dissatisfaction and burnout.

Surveys conducted by Doximity and Physicians’ Foundation have shown that 40% of physicians believe regulatory burdens are a major source of dissatisfaction in practicing medicine and 46% believe that efforts to reduce administrative burden would be the most effective intervention to reduce burnout. More...

AMA president: Doctors must turn discontent into decisive action

In his final address to the House of Medicine, outgoing AMA president Bruce A. Scott, MD, who has taken the message of practicing physicians to America this year, called upon physicians to step up and unite to lead the charge to heal the country’s broken health system.

“Despite all the efforts of everyone in this room, and colleagues across the country, our health care system is failing in fundamental ways,” he said. “It's failing physicians and, more importantly, it’s failing our patients.” More...

How a resident physician is turning equity research into action

A relatively new aspect of a medical student’s physician residency application—program signaling, a system that allows applicants to indicate interest in a limited number of programs—has quickly become a key factor in the residency-selection process. 

According to a 2024 survey from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), nearly 80% of responding program directors from specialties in which signaling was available said signals affected how they screen applications—and 70% said signals influence who gets an interview. More...

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