by Suzanne Wilson | Nov 30, 2010 | Featured, State Retired Doctors
The UAPD Retirees’ chapter held a meeting in San Diego on October 23rd. The retirees discussed the exaggerated and untruthful attacks on the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) being made by Meg Whitman and other Republican candidates for office...
by Suzanne Wilson | Nov 30, 2010 | Private Practice Doctors
A shocking 23 percent reduction to Medicare payments to doctors is scheduled to go into effect on the first of December, unless Congress intervenes. Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar reports in the Associated Press: “The cuts have nothing to do with President Barack...
by Suzanne Wilson | Nov 30, 2010 | California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), California State of California Doctors, Department of Developmental Services (DDS), Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), Department of Public Health (DPH), Department of Social Services (DSS), Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), Legal Advocacy
Furloughs of State Employees in Agencies Funded by Federal and Special Funds: UAPD attorneys recently finished up appellate briefs and await oral argument in the Court of Appeals regarding the Governors’ appeal of the lower court ruling in the union’s...
by Suzanne Wilson | Nov 30, 2010 | California Counties, Los Angeles County Physicians, Los Angeles County Psychiatrists and Dentists
In a case that has troubling implications for all public sector doctors, some of the Los Angeles County supervisors asked for and were granted access to medical peer review documents from Olive View county hospital, which is part of the …
by Suzanne Wilson | Nov 30, 2010 | California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), California State of California Doctors
On Wednesday November 10th, UAPD met once again with the Department of Personnel Administration (DPA) and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) regarding the surplus notices issued to 93 CDCR dentists.At the previous meeting on September...
