August 23, 2022
Area(s) of Interest: Advocacy
Please be a part of the California Medical Association (CMA) in opposing two priority bills which might be at present nonetheless beneath debate within the California Senate.
AB 1278 would create pointless administrative burdens
AB 1278 would improve administrative burdens in doctor practices and divert time that must be spent offering well being care to sufferers to administrative duties. This ill-conceived invoice would require a doctor to supply a written discover each two years concerning the Open Payments Database and procure affected person signatures acknowledging receipt of mentioned discover.
Please becoming a member of us in telling legislators that AB 1278 will scale back the time physicians are in a position to spend with their sufferers.
Click right here to take action on AB 1278. (Sample letter supplied.)
AB 2236 would unsafely broaden optometrists’ scope of apply
AB 2236 would authorize optometrists to carry out surgical procedures on a affected person’s eye with scalpels and lasers, although they lack the coaching to securely accomplish that.
However, the invoice does NOT require satisfactory coaching to guarantee competency of candidates who can be licensed to carry out these procedures, and truly has loopholes that undermine the coaching necessities of the invoice.
Please be a part of us in telling legislators that AB 2236 will expose sufferers to pointless well being dangers by permitting such procedures to be carried out by optometrists who will not be adequately educated to carry out surgical procedures or procedures with lasers or scalpels.
Click right here to take action on AB 2236. (Sample letter supplied.)
CMA appreciates your voice in opposing these measures.