Long wait times at Kaiser for mental health care is a persistent problem and is in possible violation of state law, according to testimony at state Senate hearing this week.
Kaiser doctors, therapists and patients complained they re stymied from seeing mental health patients in a timely manner by the hospital giant s deliberate understaffing.
A judge has granted a request for a preliminary injunction brought by an association of health plans whose members challenged the constitutionality of a state bill requiring them as well as insurers to pay for workplace COVID-19 testing retroactive to the beginning of the pandemic.