#6 Health

CSBA supports innovative plans that are designed to make affordable quality healthcare available to small business employers their employees and dependents. We oppose government mandated healthcare initiatives that place an undue burden on small business owners. CSBA is committed to working to find solutions for our broken health care system.

Bill Summaries

Bill Summary
AB 52 - Feuer: Health care coverage. Requires approval from the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance for increases in health care premiums, copayments, or deductibles. Pending
AB 72, AB 137, AB 154, AB 369, AB 714, AB 1000, SB 166 – All mandated coverage that would increase costs. Oppose
AB 242 – Comm. On Tax & Revenue: Provides additional modified conformity to specified provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Watch
AB 439 - Skinner: Healthcare information. Continue to protect patient privacy, remove barriers to the necessary exchange of health information, and encourage the appropriate exchange of health care information between providers, plans, and other business associates. Watch.
AB 792 – Bonilla : Requires specified health care service plans and health insurers to provide specified information to the California Health Benefit Exchange for purposes of enrolling those enrollees, insurers, or applicants in the Exchange. Oppose.
AB 1083 – Monning: This bill would prohibit specified persons or entities from encouraging or directing small employers to seek coverage from another plan or the voluntary purchasing pool established under the Health Benefit Exchange. Oppose
AB 1334 – Feuer: Requires plans and insurers to, categorize all products offered in the individual market into 5 tiers according to actuarial value. Oppose
SB 21 – Liu: Requires hospitals to provide information both orally and in writing to the patient, if patient is anticipated to need post hospital care, prior to discharge. Support.
SB 127 – Emmerson: Requires the administrative director, in order to keep the fee schedule for physician services appropriately updated, to annually adopt the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, descriptors, and modifiers published by the American Medical Association.Support.
SB 233 – Pavley: Emergency services and care would include care, treatment, and surgery, consultation could be by a physician assistant in compliance with prescribed provisions. Support.
SB 751 – Gaines: Prohibits a contract by or on behalf of a plan or insurer and a licensed hospital, from containing a provision that restricts the ability of the plan or insurer to furnish information to end users concerning the cost range of procedures or the quality of services performed by the hospital or facility. Support.
SB 810 – Leno: Makes all California residents eligible for specified health care benefits under the California Healthcare system, which would, on a single-payer basis, negotiate for or set fees for health care service provided through the system and pay claims to those services. Oppose

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