Latest California Healthline Stories
New Map Shows Health Technology Reach
Use of health information technology is expanding rapidly in California, according to a new map released yesterday showing the status of health information exchange in each of the state’s 58 counties.
Rural Medi-Cal Managed Care Effort Begins
Medi-Cal managed care coverage has spread to 28 rural counties, completing the state’s goal of launching managed care plans in all 58 California counties before Jan. 1, 2014.
Insurance Broker Wants To Be in Exchange
Several prominent legislators are supporting a push by a Web-based health insurance broker to be included in the state’s health benefit exchange enrollment effort.
Opening Month Numbers Indicate Intense Interest in Calif. Exchange
The first month of the exchange is wrapping up — with more than two million Web inquiries and more than 200,000 phone discussions about health coverage through Covered California.
Assembly Member Urges Senate to Create New Committee on Aging, Long-Term Care
Assembly member Mariko Yamada (D-Davis), named Legislator of the Year by the Senior Legislature yesterday, is urging the state Senate to form a subcommittee on aging and long-term care.
Autism Advocates Disagree With Rosy Assessment of Healthy Families Transition
The Department of Health Care Services director’s assessment that the transition of 860,000 children from Healthy Families to Medi-Cal managed care has gone pretty well drew a strong response from autism advocates.
Exchange Wants Covered California Days
Every California citizen needs health coverage and every California city needs a day to celebrate that, according to a new plan from the state’s health benefit exchange.
Exchange Officials Address ‘Glitchy’ Start
At the first meeting of the health benefit exchange board since Covered California’s enrollment effort launched, officials evaluated many facets of the rollout, including the “glitchy beginning.”
Medi-Cal Transition ‘Lessons Learned’
An Assembly health committee hearing yesterday examined the long list of current and pending Medi-Cal managed care transitions with the goal of correcting missteps of the past and avoiding new ones in the future.
State Agency’s Penalty Check Payout for Late Hearings Climbs Above $2.7 Million
More than a thousand Californians successfully appealed a move to exclude them from Community Based Adult Services care, and the state’s delay in processing those hearings cost millions of dollars in penalties.