Today UAPD staff members in Oakland delivered a large stack of union authorization cards to the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB), the agency that is charged with administering the collective bargaining statutes that cover UC workers. We believe that there are...
UAPD Updates
CDCR Layoffs: Enough Positions for All Impacted Doctors
The reduction in the number of California prison inmates, which was mandated by the federal courts in 2011, has meant layoffs in most classifications within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Since 2011, UAPD has been doing everything...
Private Practice Insights: Anti-Fraud Campaigns
By Stuart A. Bussey, M.D., J.D., UAPD President Fraud costs the US healthcare system about $65 billion last year from Medicare alone. The ACA provides the Center for Medicare Services (CMS) with funding to adopt new tools to identify fraud and abuse. Last year the...
Free Online CE/CME Now Available for Members
Members gave such positive feedback about the CME class on addiction held during the Triennial Convention in San Francisco, UAPD decided to make some of that content available to all union members online. UAPD has created an online medical education portal offering up...
Pensionability of DSS Bonus Money
Back in 2010, UAPD attorneys helped a retired State doctor file a claim with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) seeking to recalculate his pension payment to reflect the bonuses he had earned while working for the Department of Social...
Private Practice Insights: Quality Pay
By Stuart A. Bussey, M.D., J.D., UAPD President Whether you are a UAPD member in county employment or private practice you are affected by Pay for Performance. The Hay Group recently calculated that roughly two thirds of health care organizations incorporated...