California Health Insurance Bill, AB1324 signed
I recently posted about a health bill that was on the California governor's desk.
This weekend, the bill, AB 1324, was signed. This bill requires health plans to justify rescinding policies to the Department of Insurance or Department of Managed Health Care. Health plans also may not recover the costs of claims for care provided unless they can prove consumers purposely deceived them to obtain coverage.
He signed and vetoed many bills over the weekend, for more information about all the different bills, you can go to California progress report.
I think it's good news that he signed AB 1324. It's great bill and as mentioned in my previous post about this bill, this bill will help fix health insurance in California. I don't know much about the other bills, but this was the main health bill I was concerned about.
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posted at 2:53 PM
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I have a bad feeling that this will only force the health plans to adopt a more strict authorization policy. Thus making it more difficult for patients to obtain authorizations for very common medical procedures and equipment. It may also force the plans to hire more employees in their authorization departments to monitor these more closely. Sadly this can only mean one thing...more expensive health care.
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