Peter Lee said the decision was influenced by President Joe Biden's executive order opening a special enrollment period in the federal marketplace that signs up consumers for health insurance in 36 states. It also makes sense for California consumers to make sure they're not confused. Biden, in a statement from the White House, and Lee, in his interview with The.
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On January 5, 2021, the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) issued an All Plan Letter regarding the newly passed California Senate Bill 855 (Wiener, Stats. 2020, ch. 151 § 2) (SB 855).
1 SB 855 became effective on January 1, 2021. It amends the California Health and Safety Code and Insurance Code to expand state coverage requirements for mental health and substance use disorder services, and it requires health plans and insurers to adopt a standardized definition of “medical necessity” for those treatments.
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The All Plan Letter provides an overview of SB 855, identifies clinical criteria and guidelines that health plans
Jan. 15, 2021 | MacIver News Service
If the State of Wisconsin has received 373,100 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, why have only 176,165 been administered?
That was one of many questions the Assembly Committee on Health hoped to answer during an all-day public hearing on Thursday.
Lisa Olson, Assistant Deputy Security for the Wisconsin Department of Health Service (DHS), told committee members that the federal government is at fault. There are 1,200 vaccine providers in Wisconsin, and every week they ask DHS to send more doses than the state has on hand.
“We are not receiving enough [doses] to keep up with demand,” she said.
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Adam Dondro, 38, of Carmichael, has been reappointed Deputy Secretary for
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On December 16, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) will disallow $200 million in federal Medi-Cal funding next quarter due to California’s refusal to stop imposing abortion coverage mandates on health plans and issuers. Each quarter CMS will disallow another $200 million in Medicaid Federal Financial Participation funds until California abandons its abortion coverage mandate. HHS states that its enforcement action is consistent with legal precedent regarding the federal government’s authority to impose conditions on funds.