Physicians can now order the 2007 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 seven-volume, 4,500-page print edition, an interactive CD-ROM, or an online subscription.

The entire handbook has been updated and expanded to reflect new laws and developments in the fast-changing health care delivery system. This edition includes extensive information on Medicare Advantage, including private fee-for-service health plans, and Medicare’s pay-for-performance program. It also contains extensive information on all the HIPAA rules, including specifics on the new National Provider Identifier, and contains practical summaries of state and federal laws, the text of laws where necessary, and useful forms.

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

The online subscription and CD-ROM are priced at $399 each and the seven-volume print version costs $799. Visit the CMA bookstore to place your order.

Members can access most of the CPLH content free through ON-CALL, CMA’s online medical-legal information library, at CMA's members-only website. Nonmembers can download ON-CALL documents for $2 per page in the CMA bookstore.

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