New Requirement to Submit Immunization Data to a California Registry
AB 1797, a new California bill effective January 1, 2023, requires providers to enter immunizations they administer as well as a patient's race and ethnicity into a California immunization registry (CAIR or RIDE/Healthy Futures). For additional information, see the AB 1797 Immunization Registry FAQs.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CAIR/Pages/CAIR-updates.aspx
NOTICE TO PATIENTS
https://www.mbc.ca.gov/licensing/Notice-to-Consumers.aspx
Medical doctors are licensed and regulated by the Medical Board of California. To check up on a license or to file a complaint go to www.mbc.ca.gov,
email: licensecheck@mbc.ca.gov, or call (800) 633-2322.
The Open Payments database is a federal tool used to search payments made by drug and device companies to physicians and teaching hospitals. It can be found at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov.
For informational purposes only, a link to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments web page is provided here. The federal Physician Payments Sunshine Act requires that detailed information about payment and other payments of value worth over ten dollars ($10) from manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, and biologics to physicians and teaching hospitals be made available to the public.