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Calendar of Upcoming Events January 10, 2009—WC Course for Attorneys/Claims Adjusters AMA Guides—5th Edition– Understanding Disability Ratings Using the Guides—Huntington Beach Click here for the course registration form.
February 26, 2009 COA QME Course—AAOS 2009 Annual Meeting—Las Vegas The course is accredited for 6 QME CME hours. Click here for the course registration form.
April 3-4, 2009 COA Report Writing Course/Preparing for the QME Test—Huntington Beach This is a 12-hour required course for new QMEs. Click here for the course registration form.
May 14-17, 2009 COA Annual Meeting/QME Course—Santa Barbara This meeting is accredited for Category I and QME CME hours. Click here for information on the meeting.
COA joins the CMA in filing a lawsuit asking the courts to reject the DMHC Prohibition on Balance Billing Regulations In spite of opposition from hospital-based and on-call specialists, The Department of Managed Health Care approved regulations which declare it an “unfair billing pattern” for non-contracted providers rendering “emergency medical services” to balance billing patients for monies that are the responsibility of their insurance carrier. Medicine believes that these regulations exceed the authority of the DMHC since their charge is regulating health plans, not physicians. The lawsuit seeks to have the regulations rejected. In this interim, the regulations did go into effect on October 15, 2008. CMA has prepared a Toolkit to help physicians understand the impact that the regulations will have on their practice. Click here to access the Toolkit.
NEW FEATURE: Contact Your Legislator(s) COA is always looking to develop new features on our web page to improve functionality for our Members. Please see the NEW Contact Your Legislator(s) link on the left hand tool bar or click here. This new feature allows you to easily send a personalized message to your state or federal legislator(s).
COA will also be using the Contact Your Legislators link to help our members send communications to legislator(s) on important legislative issues as they arise. Please check back for future COA Legislative Alerts.
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