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.
California voters are more complicated than their left-wing stereotype. And not nearly as radical as the progressives they elect to public office.
Early results are in for California’s 12 state ballot measures. One thing to keep in mind is that a huge portion of the vote still has to be counted — this will include late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots and ballots placed in drop boxes today. It could be many days until some of these races are called by the Associated Press.
California’s annual health insurance enrollment season for individuals and families kicked off this week against a dramatic backdrop.
For deep blue California, where first-in-the-nation health care proposals regularly flood the Democratic agenda, there could not be more at stake in the presidential race.
A judge ruled on Monday to limit California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) executive powers during a pandemic.
A non-profit California health care chain will pay more than $31.5 million to settle allegations that it overbilled Medi-Cal for drugs bought through a federal program, authorities said Monday.
Three of the best health plans California state workers and retirees can buy are speeding toward collapse, according to CalPERS insurance experts.
This Election Day, California voters are being asked to replenish funding for the state’s ambitious stem cell research program, with a well-financed campaign that’s making heady promises about curing diabetes, paralysis, cancer, and Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today urged California’s four largest health insurance providers: Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California, Health Net of California, and Kaiser Permanente, to demonstrate their compliance with state and federal mental health parity laws.
Though COVID-19 forced California leaders to scale back their ambitious health care agenda, they still managed to enact significant new laws intended to lower consumer health care spending and expand access to health coverage.