L.A. County Officials Predict Substance Misuse Care Will Expand Under ACA
When Affordable Care Act floodgates officially open Jan. 1, Los Angeles County officials predict expanded access to substance misuse treatment services will help curb an expensive and growing problem in Southern California.
California May Learn From Other States in Move Toward Streamlined Enrollment
As California works to streamline its Medi-Cal eligibility and enrollment system, officials could take lessons from other states that have undergone similar transitions.
California One of Two States Cashing In on New ACA Long-Term Care Funding
California is one of two states currently participating in the Affordable Care Act’s Community First Choice Option, which provides higher federal matching Medicaid funds for community-based, long-term care services.
Shutdown Hasn’t Slowed State Leaders
With state health insurance exchanges in their first weeks of operation, health policy leaders were thinking about much more than the federal government shutdown during the National Academy for State Health Policy Conference last week in Seattle.
Campaign Launched To Enroll Children, Families in Covered California
The Children’s Partnership yesterday launched a campaign to work with schools — as well as child care and after-school programs — to inform families about new coverage options through Covered California.
Should Obamacare Be Delayed — And More to the Point, Can It?
Mounting problems with the federal health insurance exchange have sparked widespread concern, and even supporters of the ACA are turning critical. Experts weigh in on whether the individual mandate and other elements of Obamacare should, or even can, be delayed if the problems persist.
Brown Vetoes Pricing Transparency Bill
A bill aimed at Kaiser Permanente that would have required insurers to provide more health care cost data was vetoed by Gov. Brown, who said he has his own plans for cost transparency.
Statewide Health Data Gateway Opens
Politicians posturing over the federal budget and Californians looking for health insurance through the new exchange have generated much attention this month, but another milestone — the opening of a statewide electronic health information gateway — could have a bigger impact in the long run.
Bill Regulating Biosimilar Drugs Vetoed
Until FDA works out standards for biosimilar drugs, regulating them now would be premature, said Gov. Brown in vetoing a bill aimed at overseeing less-costly alternatives to biologic drugs.
Licensed midwives no longer need to be under the supervision of a physician and are restricted to attending to normal births under a bill signed into law Thursday.