Government Payers

Pending
AB 4 (Arambula, D-Fresno)
Under Review
Introduced on Dec. 2.

AB 4 would require the California Health Benefit Exchange to design a program, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to allow individuals to obtain coverage regardless of immigration status. 

Mark Farouk

Job title:
VP State Advocacy

Ben Johnson

Job title:
Group VP, Financial Policy
Pending
AB 220 (Jackson, D-Moreno Valley)
Support
Introduced on Jan. 8.

AB 220 would mandate health facilities that provide pediatric or adult subacute care to include a standardized form with treatment authorization requests, preventing Medi-Cal managed care plans from imposing their own criteria for determining medical necessity outside of what is required in those standardized forms.

Mark Farouk

Job title:
VP State Advocacy

Ben McGowan

Job title:
Vice President Legal Counsel