Latest California Healthline Stories
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.
State Opens Adult Day Services Dialogue
Before the legal settlement that led to creation of the Community Based Adult Services program expires, state officials are reviewing and updating California’s participation in the federally matched benefit for adult day health care services.
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.