Order the 2006 California Physician’s Legal Handbook
[Posted 02/09/06]

Physicians can now order the 2006 California Physician’s Legal Handbook (CPLH). This indispensable manual is published annually by CMA’s Center for Legal Affairs and answers the legal questions most frequently asked by physicians. It can be purchased as a six-volume, 4,000-page print edition or an interactive CD-ROM.

The handbook has been completely updated for 2006 to reflect new laws, court decisions, and other developments in the health care system. It includes practical summaries of state and federal laws, the text of laws where necessary, and useful forms.

New for 2006 are chapters on new medical error reporting requirements, the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit, the expansion of Medicare managed care plans (also known as “Medicare Advantage” plans), and national provider identification (NPI) numbers. (NPIs will become the standard unique identifier for health care providers on May 23, 2007.)

The CD-ROM offers all of the content of the print version, plus many enhancements, including fully searchable content, interactive forms and sample letters you can customize easily with your computer’s word-processing program, and hyperlinks that let you navigate within the CD-ROM and onto the Internet for more information about cited court cases.

The CD-ROM is priced at $399, the six-volume print version costs $799, and the CD-ROM/print version combination costs $899. Click here to place an order for the 2006 CPLH in the CMA Bookstore. Click here to place an order for the 2006 CPLH in the CMA Bookstore.

Members can access most of the CPLH content free through ON-CALL, CMA’s online library of medico-legal information, at CMA's members-only website.

Contact: CMA’s legal information line, 415/882-5144 or legalinfo@cmanet.org.