Legal Help

Need Legal Help?

The Center for Legal Affairs is here to help

The purpose of the Center for Legal Affairs is to help our members comply with laws and regulations that impact the practice of medicine.

Medical Legal Library:
The Medical Legal Library, formerly known as CMA On-Call, is the most comprehensive health law and medical practice resource for California physicians. It contains over 4,500 pages of up-to-date information on a variety of subjects of everyday importance to practicing physicians. The medical legal library includes the content from the California Physicians Legal Handbook, as well as more specialized information on peer review, payor contracting, and other topics.
 
Documents are free to members ($2 per page for nonmembers) and are available online in the resource library at www.cmanet.org or by calling the Member Help Center @ (800) 786-4262.
 
Legal Help Line:
The Legal Help Line provides members with information and resources about laws and regulations that impact the practice of medicine. While our staff cannot provide physicians with individual legal advice, our health law information specialists, with the support of our legal counsel, will help you find legal information and resources on a multitude of health-law related issues, ranging from OSHA requirements to the retention of medical records.

This service is free to members (not available to nonmembers). For assistance, call the Member Help Center @ (800) 786-4262 or e-mail legalinfo@cmanet.org