While 17 states have laws that require health insurers to cover fertility treatments, most of which include in vitro, California does not. The debate over whether health insurance plans should provide fertility coverage isn’ t new to Sacramento, but even in a state where Democrats like to boast about their fight to advance reproductive health, these efforts.
The deal, hammered out behind closed doors between Kaiser Permanente and senior officials in Newsom’ s office, could complicate a long-planned and expensive transformation of Medi-Cal, the state’ s Medicaid program, which covers roughly 14 million low-income Californians. It has infuriated executives of other managed-care insurance plans in Medi-Cal, who.
The best argument against California’ s taking over management of health care for every Californian may be the Employment Development Department’ s abysmal record of mismanaging the delivery of unemployment insurance and disability insurance benefits to those unable to work. As the state auditor reported a year ago,“ EDD did not take substantive action to.
SACRAMENTO >> California has become the first state to require health insurance plans to cover at-home tests for sexually transmitted infections such as HIV, chlamydia and syphilis which could help quell the STI epidemic that has raged nearly unchecked as public health departments have focused on COVID-19. relations for the National Coalition of STD.
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THE BUZZ: Time to stock up on popcorn and whiskey: the California recall circus is coming to town.
Any doubt that Gov. Gavin Newsom will face an up-or-down vote evaporated yesterday, when election officials reported recall backers have more than enough signatures to force an election.