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SPOTLIGHT: CA mulls licensing for discount healthcare card plan
California regulators are looking at becoming one of the first states to require discount health card plans to be licensed as managed care organizations. The idea is to help consumers avoid getting... Read more...
Blue Shield of California wins recission ruling
Over the past couple of years, California health insurance plans have been getting their clocks cleaned over rescissions of individual health insurance policies. Largely, courts and state agencies... Read more...
Suit claims CA insurers discriminate against women
The city of San Francisco has filed a lawsuit against California's insurance regulators, arguing that they have permitted the state's health plans to charge more for women's individual health... Read more...
CA judge tells insurer not to seek $1,000 settlements
A California judge has issued a temporary restraining order against health plan Anthem Blue Cross, barring the company from offering former customers $1,000 to give up the right to file legal claims... Read more...
CA investigating Kaiser call centers
The state of California is investigating Kaiser Permanente's three call centers, responding to concerns that the health plan may be letting unlicensed staffers effectively make medical decisions by... Read more...
CA Blues to offer renewed coverage to hundreds of former policyholders
Blue Shield of California has agreed to offer renewed coverage to 678 former PPO customers whose policies were rescinded since 2004. Back in July of last year, Blue Shield reached an agreement with... Read more...
California's policy-cancellation war
This year the California health insurance industry fought an entrenched battle with regulators over the right to cancel individual policies--even retroactively--whenever they saw fit. The regulators... Read more...
California bans balance billing
Capping years of debate, a new law just went into effect in California banning balance billing, a landmark measure that may further shift the balance of power in the direction of health plans.... Read more...
CA governor vetoes bill banning some health policy cancellations
After years of controversy, in which the California's Department of Managed Health Care has struggled to stop health plans from retroactively canceling policies, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has... Read more...
CA residents to get renewed health coverage
About 3,400 California consumers whose individual policies were improperly revoked will soon get invitations to rejoin their health plan. The letters are being sent out as part of a batch of... Read more...
