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Membership reaches far beyond our personalized benefits, annual dinners, Office Managers Forums, and complimentary Continuing Medical Education (CME) events. We are available to help you with everything important about your profession and your practice. Whatever you, or your staff requires – be it legal information, help with a problematic payor, establishing your practice, or details about your personal member discounts and services. We’re here to serve you and provide the most unique resources available. Learn first-hand the value of membership today and give us a call at 530.247.0293 or visit us online at www.NVMA.us. Contact Information: NVMA Executive Director Deb Schoenthaler 530.247.0293 • debnvma@sbcglobal.net
Physicians Bridging Northern Californians to Better Health
CMA’s Center for Economic Services (CES) is staffed by practice management experts with more than 125 years combined of experience in medical practice operations. Their goal is to empower physician practices by providing resources and guidance to improve the success of your practice. In 2011, CES successfully recouped over $2.7 million from insurance companies on behalf of their physician members. Assistance ranges from coaching and education to direct intervention with payors and regulators. We can help you when… • Your claims are not being paid in a timely manner • You’re not being paid according to your contract • Your claims are being denied after obtaining prior authorization or verifying eligibility
North Valley Medical Association
• You’re receiving unreasonable requests for medical records or untimely requests for refunds • You’re having difficulty obtaining fee schedules and/or payment rules • Your claims are being denied for timely filing • You’ve done everything you can to resolve an issue with a payor, including appealing, and have been unsuccessful in getting the issue resolved.
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ORGANIZED MEDICINE WORKING FOR YOU AND YOUR PATIENTS
North Valley Medical Association Protecting your practice When you join North Valley Medical Association, you join CMA as well, and together we are stronger. By protecting your practice from legal, legislative and regulatory intrusions, your membership lets you focus on what’s really important - your patients.
Together We Are Stronger The North Valley Medical Association is a Component Society of the California Medical Association
Recently, CMA stopped efforts to increase physician’s malpractice and insurance risk and rates, filing briefs and arguing two cases against those hoping to eliminate the cap on non-economic malpractice damages.
Both CMA and NVMAS are aggressively defending the practice of our members, but the benefits of organized medicine extend well beyond these basic protections.
“I joined the NVMA because I feel that the model of the local medical association is one of the few legal ways that we have to discuss issues with one another and organize to make our opinions known to our legislators. If doctors remain closeted, dealing only with our practices, while complaining about reimbursement and
Communication and Online Resources Members stay informed about proactive management, local healthcare related stories, public health and other society news through our quarterly publication San Joaquin Physician and our bi-weekly e –newsletter, which features more up-to-the-minute news items affecting your practice. Our website features information for running your practice, direct access to hundreds of healthcare links and resources, and a practical Buyer’s Guide for locating professional resources and vendors. Visit www.sjcms.org
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the legislative climate, we will soon be
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CMA’s legal help line provides immediate assistance to physicians with questions on human resource, medical, regulatory or legal issues. This service is offered exclusively to CMA members. Additionally, CMA’s medical-legal library contains over 4,500 pages of up-to-date information on a variety of subjects of everyday importance to practicing physicians. Documents are free to CMA members and are available online in the resource library or by calling CMA’s member help center.
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employees of the government. Very few people take the time to call or write to their governmental representatives, giving the impression that the pending legislation is not important to us. If we each contribute a little, we can make a difference - a big difference while still having time to focus on what we are trained to do – practice medicine.” - Julia Mooney, M.D.
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