Industry Updates
This broad category includes articles concerning health insurance costs, carrier and health plan news, changing benefits technology, and surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation and others on employee benefits.
Almost 2 million of California’s poorest and most medically fragile residents may have to switch health insurers as a result of a new strategy by the state to improve care in its Medicaid program.
With current COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave (SPSL) requirements set to expire on September 30, the California Legislature has passed California Assembly Bill 152 (AB 152), which now awaits Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature.
Blue Shield of California wants its members to get health advice as easily as they can buy sunscreen or toothpaste—and it’s teaming up with Walgreens so they can do all of those things in one place. The insurer and the drugstore giant are launching new Health Corners in 12 Walgreens stores in the San Francisco Bay area ...
Last month, a strategic decision paid off in spades. Molina Healthcare scored its largest Medicaid win ever as the California Department of Health Care Services on August 25 announced it intends to award the company new or additional contracts in Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego counties.
About 40,000 low-income adults living in the country illegally won’t lose their government-funded health insurance over the next year under a new policy announced Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration. California already pays for the health care expenses of low-income adults 25 and younger, regardless of their immigration status. A new law scheduled to ...
President Biden on Tuesday signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, an ambitious measure that aims to tamp down on inflation, lower prescription drug prices, tackle climate change, reduce the deficit and impose a minimum tax on profits of the largest corporations.
Now that the approximately $700-billion package is set to become law, what will it mean for you? Here’s a look at how the bill’s provisions could impact Californians.
The Purchaser Business Group on Health has announced a new primary care agreement with five large payer organizations and with a provider serving California. Aledade, a physician-led ACO, and insurers Aetna, Blue Shield of California, Health Net, Oscar and UnitedHealthcare have signed a memorandum of understanding in the California Advanced Primary Care Initiative. They have agreed to increase investment ...
A ballot initiative that would have raised taxes on California millionaires and billionaires to fund public health programs and pandemic prevention is dead — at least for this year.
Is California Gov. Gavin Newsom exaggerating when he says Golden State residents now will have “universal access to health coverage” as a result of a budget deal that will open Medi-Cal to 700,000 undocumented immigrants ages 26 to 49?