What’s happening: Anthem Blue Cross of California announced in a provider bulletin that, on June 1, it will implement a controversial policy that applies a 10% payment penalty on facility claims when hospitals provide care to patients involving non-participating physicians or providers.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expanding the Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Services to California, forcing all California IRFs to choose between either 100% pre-claim review or 100% post-payment review. That decision must be made by April 14.
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AB 2694 would allow a community college district to offer a baccalaureate degree program that is also offered by the California State University (CSU) or University of California (UC) within the same geographic region if the CSU or UC program does not enroll students from that region, or if there are documented unmet regional workforce...
AB 2179 would allow any party or witness to a petition for a restraining order related to a credible threat of violence or harassment in the workplace to appear remotely at a hearing. It would also allow filings related to such protective orders to be submitted electronically, beginning July 1, 2027. Assembly Judiciary Committee Support...
AB 2095 would make significant changes to California’s criminal background check law. The changes would include the creation of a rebuttable presumption that an applicant’s conviction history is not sufficiently direct and adverse to justify denying the applicant a position. This would apply if the applicant has either completed a sentence for the conviction of...
SB 1089, the Preventative Care Act, would require employers with 100 or more employees to offer coverage for a GLP-1 or GLP-1RA, access to exercise programs, gym memberships, and nutrition programs. Following conversations with the author’s office, amendments are pending to remove these provisions. In addition, large group health care service plan contracts or insurance...
SB 1037 would require the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance, in collaboration with the Office of Health Care Affordability, to each conduct an enhanced rate review to determine if health care insurance premiums are affordable for individual and group purchasers.