By Stuart A. Bussey, M.D., J.D., UAPD President My old UCI family practice attending doc recently spoke at our Departmental meeting. He set out six standards for the new patient centered medical homes—enhanced access, management of patient population rather than...
By Stuart A. Bussey, M.D., J.D., UAPD President With the majority of the Affordable Care Act blessed by the US Supreme Court, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are now rolling down the runway. Some have already launched. Thus far 150 ACO contracts have been...
All union members are invited to the UAPD Triennial Convention and 40th Anniversary Celebration in San Francisco on November 2-3, 2012. To attend, send back the registration form that has been mailed to your home or REGISTER ONLINE HERE. Exact event times are listed...
All UAPD members are encouraged to attend the 2011 UAPD Statewide Membership Meeting Weekend, which will take place October 22 – 23 at the JW Marriott in Los Angeles (MAP). UAPD Members can register online HERE. Download the UAPD Membership Meeting Weekend Schedule of...
Do doctors have a right to speak about patient safety problems in hospitals and not have it used as a basis for termination? Do they have the same right to free speech as everyone else? That’s the question being raised in a court battle between Dr. R.V. Rao and...
A shocking 23 percent reduction to Medicare payments to doctors is scheduled to go into effect on the first of December, unless Congress intervenes. Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar reports in the Associated Press: “The cuts have nothing to do with President Barack Obama’s...
HIPAA AND THE NEW HITECH AMENDMENTS:Â WHAT IS REQUIRED AND HOW CAN PHYSICIANS COMPLY? Presentation by Karin Zaner, Attorney at Law Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC
The UAPD IPA is a statewide, non-profit Independent Physicians Association formed in 1993. It gives its members, who are also members of UAPD, access to eleven PPO contracts with more than 3,500,000 non-exclusive patient lives, plus seven industrial medicine contracts...