The Week Ahead
Tuesday
The Assembly Health Committee is scheduled to discuss:
- AB 2120 to extend a Medi-Cal telemedicine program through 2013;
- AB 2146, which bars health care providers from billing individuals or insurers for adverse events or ensuing follow-up care; and
- AB 2527 to allow local agencies to provide Medi-Cal targeted case management services.
Wednesday
The Senate Health Committee's weekly meeting will discuss:
- SB 1459 to create a new program to coordinate Healthy Families and Medi-Cal; and
- SB 1721, which requires direct care nurses to undergo a special orientation session before they begin work.
Thursday
The meeting of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Advisory Loan Insurance Committee has been canceled.
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