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 lawmakers are lining up in support of a bill that would require health plans to provide information about patient-assistance programs for expensive prescription drugs to enrollees who drop or lose their coverage.
Six years after President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, the health reform law has gained acceptance from a majority of California voters, but the cost of getting healthcare remains a major concern, eclipsing worries about having insurance, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll.
As health care consolidation accelerates nationwide, a new study shows that hospital prices in two of California’s largest health systems were 25 percent higher than at other hospitals around the state.
Gov. Jerry Brown Friday signed first-in-the-nation legislation requesting federal approval for the state’s health insurance exchange to sell policies to immigrants living in California illegally.
Obama administration officials want to limit use of short-term health insurance in the United States to periods of three months or less.
California’s decision to raise its hourly minimum wage to $15 by 2022 could have unintended consequences for thousands of workers who will make too much money to stay on Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income residents.
The California Senate rejected legislation that would have required medical practitioners to notify their patients if they were on probation for serious infractions.
A Fresno man is surrendering himself to the U.S. Marshals after a 20-count indictment was returned against him by a federal grand jury, acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert said.
Illegal immigrants would be allowed to purchase health insurance for themselves and their families through California's state-run marketplace under legislation that passed both houses of the Legislature this week with bipartisan support.
Aiming to keep costs in check, Medicare is proposing to test different ways to pay for drugs — one of which is similar to CalPERs’ price-control effort for certain surgeries.