What Health Plans Need to Know: California DMHC All Plan Letter on Implementing Senate Bill 855 | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: 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. 2 Th...
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