California Medical Association's Organized Medical Staff Section (OMSS) provides education, advocacy resources, and communication for medical staffs of hospitals, other health facilities and emerging delivery
systems. Is your medical staff a member? Find out now.
Medical Staff Challenges
Medical staffs across California continue to face many challenges
such as threats to self-governance, increasing regulatory burdens of EMTALA,
reductions in reimbursement, and ability to provide quality care with decreasing
financial resources.
Physicians Need CMA-OMSS
CMA-OMSS' legal, legislative,
and economic advocacy efforts include:
- Safeguarding medical staff self-governance
- Obtaining funding for physicians on-call services
- Verbal order policy simplification
- Medical error reporting protections
- Medicare rate increases
- EMTALA reform and protection
Benefits of CMA-OMSS Membership
Membership in CMA-OMSS includes access to resources and assistance in addressing
medical staff issues, including:
- CMA hotline for questions from Medical Executive
Committee members, Chiefs-of-Staff, and Medical Staff Coordinators.
- CMA's annotated Model Medical Staff Bylaws (updated to
include new JCAHO, state, and federal guidelines) and discounted bylaws review
- Medical staff/hospital relations iInformation
- Quarterly OMSS Advocate newsletter providing updates
on current events and issues
- CMA On-Call documents and advice specifically geared
to answer medical staff concerns including:
- Medical Staff On-Call requirements
- Economic credentialing/exclusive contracts
- Fair hearing requirements and disruptive physicians
- Peer review immunities
- Legal, legislative, and economic advocacy
- Participating at the OMSS Annual Assembly and other
educational conferences
In addition, your medical staff can select a physician representative
to serve as a voting member of the CMA-OMSS Annual Assembly and
participate in developing CMA medical staff policy and advocacy.
Annual OMSS Fee Schedule
OMSS Membership dues are based on the number of beds for
which a hospital is licensed:
- $300 (fewer than 100 beds)
- $700 (100-300 beds)
- $1000 (301-500 beds)
- $1500 (over 500 beds)
Click here to download an application.
For more information contact:
Phone: (916) 551-2053
Fax: (916) 551-2885
E-mail: medstaffhelp@cmanet.org
