

Healthcare employers are reevaluating how they compensate physicians, with experts forecasting years of potential uncertainty. No other medical association platform features so many companies, personal service, and support, a user-friendly experience based on what our members need. The LACMA Solutions Portal, or LSP, is the most comprehensive, member-centric platform in the industry. With significant discounts, incentives, a personal concierge service to help members navigate the best solution and so much more, the goal is to continue to educate members and nonmembers alike. Since LACMA launched the new portal and marketplace featuring over 100 partners, only a dozen members have taken advantage of registering to date.

LACMA Solutions Portal is Designed for Practices, Groups CMA published a Telehealth Policy Update that summarizes what has already been done and provides some next steps that physicians can watch for throughout 2022. Policymakers at the state and federal levels are making decisions that will shape the future of telehealth for years to come. These policies remain in effect as long as the nation continues to be in a public health emergency, these policies remain in effect.Ĭongress also recently extended the current COVID-19 pandemic telehealth waivers for five months beyond the end of the public health emergency. HHS has previously indicated that when a decision is made to terminate the declaration or let it expire, the agency will provide 60 days’ notice before termination.ĭuring the COVID-19 Pandemic, through continued advocacy from CMA and LACMA, public and private health plans expanded their coverage and reimbursement for services provided via telehealth. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra will issue another extension. The centers said that people who had HIV and monkeypox were more than twice as likely to be hospitalized, although the exact reason for treatment wasn't known.Īlthough the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration is slated to expire at the end of October, it is expected that the U.S. who have developed the viral disease also had HIV or another sexually transmitted infection or disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in a weekly report on monkeypox that a case analysis found that 61% of people in the U.S. In California, 4,140 cases were reported last week 1,694 were in Los Angeles County, health officials said. "This is one of two deaths in the United States that are under investigation to determine whether monkeypox was a contributing cause," she said at a public briefing Thursday. Chief Medical Director Rita Singhal of the county's Public Health Department said details were unavailable at this early investigation stage. is under investigation in Los Angeles County, according to officials. Women Physicians Issues and Advocacy CommitteeĪ second possible death from monkeypox in the U.S.Asian American Pacific Islander Physicians Advisory Committee.African American Physicians Advisory Committee.150th Anniversary Member Appreciation Event.
