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Bill Summary Latest Action
CA A 1057 Health Care: Traumatic Brain Injury: Pilot Program
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a one-year, incentive-based pilot program in 10 trauma facilities for the purpose of increasing the use of an interactive, evidence-based treatment guideline model for traumatic brain injury. Appropriates funds.
• 07/11/2007 - In SENATE Committee on HEALTH: Not heard.
CA A 1155 Health Care Service Plans
Requires the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care, upon a final determination that a health care service plan has underpaid or failed to pay a provider, to assess an administrative penalty and to require the plan to pay the provider the amount owed plus interest. Authorizes the Director to exempt a plan from paying the penalty if the Director makes a written finding that paying both the penalty and the provider would jeopardize the financial solvency of the plan. Relates to assessments.
• 07/10/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 1226 Medi-Cal: Provider Enrollment
Provides that a physician enrolled and in good standing in the Medi-Cal program who is changing locations within the same county is eligible to continue enrollment at the new location by filing a change of location form, in lieu of submitting a complete application package. Provides a procedure for the expedited enrollment in the program of any licensed physician and surgeon who meet specified conditions.
• 07/11/2007 - From SENATE Committee on HEALTH: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 1296 Public Employee Health Benefits: Disclosures
Requires a health benefit plan or contract, or an entity offering services relating to the administration of health benefit plans to members and annuitants, to disclose to the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System the cost, utilization, actual claim payments, and contract allowance amounts for services rendered by participating hospitals, with specified restrictions and disclosure limitations. Deems this information confidential, subject to evidentiary trade secret protections.
• 07/12/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 1401 Insurance Fraud: Assessments
Relates to existing law that provides that the costs of administration and operation of the Fraud Division are to be borne by all of the insurers admitted to transact business in the state. Requires an insurer to pay an annual special purpose assessment to be used exclusively for the support of the Fraud Division. Provides all moneys from the assessment will be deposited to the credit of the Insurance Fund. Requires an report on the Insurance Department's Web site on specified information.
• 07/09/2007 - From SENATE Committee on BANKING, FINANCE AND INSURANCE: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA S 164 Prenatal Screening
Changes the name of the Birth Defects Monitoring Program. Requires the Department of Public Health to charge investigators who are approved by the department to use pregnancy blood for research purposes, a fee for costs related to data linkage, storage, retrieval, processing, data entry, reinventory, and shipping of pregnancy blood or its components, and related data management. Protects identifying information. Requires billing of specified entities to cover the costs of confidentiality protection.
• 07/10/2007 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 381 Medi-Cal: Provider Reimbursement
Applies a provision of existing law that prohibits a provider under the Medi-Cal program from submitting a reimbursement request that contains a beneficiary's social security number to the submission of a request by a provider for beneficiary eligibility. Deletes the limitation on this prohibition to instances in which a request is submitted for payment. Exempts a licensed hospital, long-term health care facility, a primary health clinic, a provider of medical transportation, or a hospital-based physician.
• 07/11/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
CA A 543 Ambulatory Surgical Centers: Licensure
Redesignates a surgical clinic as an ambulatory surgical center for purposes of licensure and regulatory requirements. Requires any person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation desiring a license for an ambulatory surgical center to meet prescribed operational, staffing, and licensing standards. Requires the Department of Health Services to perform initial inspections of such centers and to perform specified periodic inspections. Requires a training program for inspection personnel.
• 07/09/2007 - From SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 66 Inmate HIV Testing
Requires HIV testing for all inmates entering a correctional facility for a certain period. Requires testings after entry into and prior to the expected discharge from the facility. Requires if the test results are positive, the medical officer shall notify the inmate's parole officer. Authorizes the notification of the spouse or domestic partner of the inmate that he or she may have been exposed to HIV. Requires related reports. Requires the development of a HIV or hepatitis treatment plan.
• 07/10/2007 - From SENATE Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA S 840 Single-Payer Health Care Coverage
Establishes the State Healthcare System. Makes all state residents eligible for specified health care benefits under the system, which would, on a single-payer basis, negotiate for or set fees for health care services provided through the system and pay claims for those services. Provides an income eligibility factor. Creates the Healthcare Policy Board to establish policy on medical issues and various other matters relating to the system. Provides certain insurance fraud laws to providers under the system.
• 07/10/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
California
Bill Summary Latest Action
CA A 1057 Electronic Personal Records Strategic Plan
Requires the Health and Human Services Agency to establish an advisory committee on electronic personal records to assist the agency in providing a specified report to the Legislature recommending a strategic plan to enhance the development and implementation of electronic personal records. Establishes procedures to be followed by the committee with respect to members' conflict of interest, to ensure the integrity of the committee's recommendations.
• 06/14/2007 - To SENATE Committees on HEALTH and JUDICIARY.
CA A 1155 Health Care Service Plans
Requires the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care, upon a final determination that a health care service plan has underpaid or failed to pay a provider, to assess an administrative penalty and to require the plan to pay the provider, at a minimum, the amount owed plus interest. Authorizes the Director to exempt a plan from paying the penalty if the Director makes a written finding that paying both the penalty and the provider would jeopardize the financial solvency of the plan.
• 06/14/2007 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
CA A 1268 Medi-Cal: Fiscal Intermediary Services
Requires each Medi-Cal program contract for fiscal intermediary services to require that the fiscal intermediary contractor allow every provider that meets the requirements and standards imposed by the Department of Health Care Services to utilize electronic means for transmitting claims to the fiscal intermediary contractor. Requires the fiscal intermediary contractor to issue an annual quality assurance claim accuracy report that details the number and types of claims received and payments issued.
• 06/14/2007 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
CA A 1296 Public Employee Health Benefits: Disclosures
Requires a health benefit plan or contract, or entities offering services relating to the administration of health benefit plans, to disclose to the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System the cost, utilization, and actual claim payments on behalf of each member and annuitant for all health care services rendered by hospitals, including the allowance amounts for services billed. Deems this information confidential, subject to evidentiary trade secret protections.
• 06/14/2007 - To SENATE Committees on PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT and JUDICIARY.
CA A 1298 Personal Information: Disclosure
Applies the prohibitions of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to any business organized for the purpose of maintaining medical information for treatment or diagnosis. Permits a consumer reporting agency to disclose public record information lawfully obtained from an open public record to the extent otherwise permitted by law. Adds medical and health insurance information to data elements that would constitute personal information that would require disclosure due to a breach.
• 06/14/2007 - From SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY with author's amendments.
• 06/14/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
CA A 381 Medi-Cal: Provider Reimbursement
Applies a provision of existing law that prohibits a provider under the Medi-Cal program from submitting a reimbursement request that contains a beneficiary's social security number to the submission of a request by a provider for beneficiary eligibility. Deletes the limitation on this prohibition to instances in which a request is submitted for payment. Exempts a licensed hospital, long-term health care facility, a primary health clinic, a provider of medical transportation, or a hospital-based physician.
• 06/13/2007 - From SENATE Committee on HEALTH: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 543 Ambulatory Surgical Centers: Licensure
Redesignates a surgical clinic as an ambulatory surgical center for purposes of licensure and regulatory requirements. Requires any person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation desiring a license for an ambulatory surgical center to meet prescribed operational, staffing, and licensing standards. Requires the Department of Health Services to perform initial inspections of such centers and to perform specified periodic inspections. Requires a training program for inspection personnel.
• 06/14/2007 - To SENATE Committees on HEALTH and RULES.
CA A 66 Inmate HIV Testing
Requires HIV testing for all inmates entering a correctional facility for incarceration for a certain period. Requires testings after entry into and prior to the expected discharge from the facility. Requires that if the test results are positive, the chief medical officer shall notify the inmate's parole officer. Authorizes the notification of the spouse or domestic partner of the inmate that he or she may have been exposed to HIV. Requires related reports. Requires the development of a HIV treatment plan.
• 06/14/2007 - To SENATE Committees on HEALTH and PUBLIC SAFETY.
United States
Bill Summary Latest Action
US H 2552 Hepatitis C Virus Infection Referral Program
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish, promote, and support a comprehensive prevention, research, and medical management referral program for hepatitis C virus infection.
• 05/24/2007 - INTRODUCED.
• 05/24/2007 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
California
Bill Summary Latest Action
CA A 1057 Electronic Personal Records Strategic Plan
Requires the Health and Human Services Agency to establish an advisory committee on electronic personal records to assist the agency in providing a specified report to the Legislature recommending a strategic plan to enhance the development and implementation of electronic personal records. Establishes procedures to be followed by the committee with respect to members' conflict of interest, to ensure the integrity of the committee's recommendations.
• 06/04/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
CA A 1155 Health Care Service Plans
Requires the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care, upon a final determination that a health care service plan has underpaid or failed to pay a provider, to assess an administrative penalty and to require the plan to pay the provider, at a minimum, the amount owed plus interest. Authorizes the Director to exempt a plan from paying the penalty if the Director makes a written finding that paying both the penalty and the provider would jeopardize the financial solvency of the plan.
• 06/05/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
CA A 1226 Medi-Cal: Provider Enrollment
Provides that a physician enrolled and in good standing in the Medi-Cal program who is changing locations within the same county is eligible to continue enrollment at the new location by filing a change of location form, in lieu of submitting a complete application package. Provides a procedure for the expedited enrollment in the program of any licensed physician and surgeon who meet specified conditions.
• 06/06/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
CA A 1268 Medi-Cal: Fiscal Intermediary Services
Requires each Medi-Cal program contract for fiscal intermediary services to require that the fiscal intermediary contractor allow every provider that meets the requirements and standards imposed by the Department of Health Care Services to utilize electronic means for transmitting claims to the fiscal intermediary contractor. Requires the fiscal intermediary contractor to issue an annual quality assurance claim accuracy report that details the number and types of claims received and payments issued.
• 06/04/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
CA A 1296 Public Employee Health Benefits: Disclosures
Requires a health benefit plan or contract, or entities offering services relating to the administration of health benefit plans, to disclose to the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System the cost, utilization, and actual claim payments on behalf of each member and annuitant for all health care services rendered by hospitals, including the allowance amounts for services billed. Deems this information confidential, subject to evidentiary trade secret protections.
• 06/04/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
CA A 1298 Personal Information: Disclosure
Applies the prohibitions of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to any business organized for the purpose of maintaining medical information for treatment or diagnosis. Permits a consumer reporting agency to disclose public record information lawfully obtained from an open public record to the extent otherwise permitted by law. Adds medical and health insurance information to data elements that would constitute personal information that would require disclosure due to a breach.
• 06/06/2007 - To SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY.
CA A 1401 Insurance Fraud: Assessments
Relates to existing law that provides that the costs of administration and operation of the Fraud Division are to be borne by all of the insurers admitted to transact business in the state. Provides the assessment shall not exceed a specified amount each fiscal year. Provides the assessment for each company not exceed a new specified amount each fiscal year. Requires the Department of Insurance to annually post on its Internet Web site fraud investigative program performance outcomes.
• 06/06/2007 - To SENATE Committee on BANKING, FINANCE AND INSURANCE.
CA S 164 Prenatal Screening
Changes the name of the Birth Defects Monitoring Program. Requires the Department of Public Health to charge investigators who are approved by the department to use pregnancy blood for research purposes, a fee for costs related to data linkage, storage, retrieval, processing, data entry, reinventory, and shipping of pregnancy blood or its components, and related data management. Protects identifying information. Requires billing of specified entities to cover the costs of confidentiality protection.
• 06/07/2007 - To ASSEMBLY Committees on HEALTH and JUDICIARY.
CA S 350 Hospitals: Discount Payment and Charity Care
Relates to existing law the requires each hospital to maintain a written policy regarding discount payments for financial qualified patients as well as a written charity care policy and defines high medical costs for purposes of determination patient eligibility. Specifies that the out-of-pocket expenses are for health care services, including medications that exceeds a family's income percentage. Relates to hospital extended payment plans. Relates to interest due to patients for overcharges.
• 06/07/2007 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
CA A 381 Medi-Cal: Provider Reimbursement
Applies a provision of existing law that prohibits a provider under the Medi-Cal program from submitting a reimbursement request that contains a beneficiary's social security number to the submission of a request by a provider for beneficiary eligibility. Deletes the limitation on this prohibition to instances in which a request is submitted for payment. Exempts a licensed hospital, long-term health care facility, a primary health clinic, a provider of medical transportation, or a hospital-based physician.
• 06/06/2007 - From SENATE Committee on HEALTH with author's amendments.
• 06/06/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HEALTH.
CA A 543 Ambulatory Surgical Centers: Licensure
Redesignates a surgical clinic as an ambulatory surgical center for purposes of licensure and regulatory requirements. Requires any person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation desiring a license for an ambulatory surgical center to meet prescribed operational, staffing, and licensing standards. Requires the Department of Health Services to perform initial inspections of such centers and to perform specified periodic inspections. Requires a training program for inspection personnel.
• 06/04/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
CA A 66 Inmate HIV Testing
Requires HIV testing for all inmates entering a correctional facility for incarceration for a certain period. Requires testings after entry into and prior to the expected discharge from the facility. Requires that if the test results are positive, the chief medical officer shall notify the inmate's parole officer. Authorizes the notification of the spouse or domestic partner of the inmate that he or she may have been exposed to HIV. Requires related reports. Requires the development of a HIV treatment plan.
• 06/05/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
CA S 840 Single-Payer Health Care Coverage
Establishes the State Universal Healthcare System. Makes all state residents eligible for specified health care benefits under the system, which would, on a single-payer basis, negotiate for or set fees for health care services provided through the system and pay claims for those services. Creates the Universal Healthcare Policy Board to establish policy on medical issues and various other matters relating to the system.
• 06/06/2007 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
CA S 883 Victims Compensation
Relates to crime victims compensation by the Victims Compensation and Government Claims Board. Increases the limitation on an award for outpatient mental health counseling. Makes a clarifying change to a provision of existing law which authorizes the board to establish maximum rates and service limitations for reimbursement of medical and medical-related services and for mental health and counseling services and exempts the adoption, amendment, and repeal of those limitations and rates.
• 06/06/2007 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
CA S 906 Workers' Compensation: Claims Processing
Authorizes a provider of medical treatment, service or supplies, a persons or entity claiming the right to reimbursement for services for which an employer is responsible under a workers' compensation claim to contract with an agent or assignee for the purposes of billing, bill processing, reimbursement services, or filing required reports on behalf of the provider or entity.
• 06/07/2007 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE.
CA S 962 Umbilical Cord Blood Biomedical Resources Program
Requires the Department of Health Services to establish a state Umbilical Cord Blood Biomedical Resources Program to collect, process, and store umbilical cord blood stem cells for the purposes of transplantation and research. Requires the department to establish fees relating to these purposes to cover the costs of administering the program. Sets forth various duties in implementing the program. Creates a related fund. Relates to the security and confidentiality of a donor's personal information.
• 06/06/2007 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
United States
Bill Summary Latest Action
US S 1456 Electronic Personal Health Records
A bill to provide for the establishment and maintenance of electronic personal health records for individuals and family members enrolled in Federal employee health benefits plans under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, and for other purposes.
• 06/06/2007 - In SENATE Committee on HOMELAND SECURITY AND GVMT AFFAIRS: Rfrd to sbcmt on OVRST OF GOV MNGMT, FED WRKFRCE AND D.C.
US S 1471 Social Security Act
Provides for the voluntary development by States of qualifying best practices for health care and to encourage such voluntary development by amending titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide differential rates of payment favoring treatment provided consistent with qualifying best practices under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and for other purposes.
• 05/24/2007 - INTRODUCED.
• 05/24/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time.
• 05/24/2007 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
US S 1490 Electronic Personal Health Records Maintenance
Provides for the establishment and maintenance of electronic personal health records for individuals and family members enrolled in Federal employee health benefits plans under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, and for other purposes.
• 06/06/2007 - In SENATE Committee on HOMELAND SECURITY AND GVMT AFFAIRS: Rfrd to sbcmt on OVRST OF GOV MNGMT, FED WRKFRCE AND D.C.
US S 1507 Social Security Act
Amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for drug and health care claims data release.
• 05/24/2007 - INTRODUCED.
• 05/24/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time.
• 05/24/2007 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
US H 2549 Medicare Secondary Payer Rules
Amends the Social Security Act with respect to the application of Medicare secondary payer rules to workers' compensation settlement agreements and Medicare set-asides under such agreements.
• 05/24/2007 - INTRODUCED.
• 05/24/2007 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
• 05/24/2007 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
California
Bill Summary Latest Action
CA A 1155 Health Care Service Plans
Requires the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, to assess administrative penalties if the director determines that the licensee committed an act or omission constituting grounds for disciplinary action, and, upon final determination that a health care service plan has underpaid or failed to pay a provider, to assess an administrative penalty and to require the plan to pay the provider. Provides detail requirements for the determination.
  • 04/10/2007 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 1226 Medi-Cal: Provider Enrollment
Provides that a physician enrolled and in good standing in the Medi-Cal program who is changing locations within the same county is eligible to continue enrollment at the new location by filing a change of location form, in lieu of submitting a complete application package.
  • 04/10/2007 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 1268 Medi-Cal: Fiscal Intermediary Services
Requires each Medi-Cal program contract for fiscal intermediary services to require that the fiscal intermediary contractor allow every provider that meets the requirements and standards imposed by the Department of Health Care Services to utilize electronic means for transmitting claims to the fiscal intermediary contractor.
  • 04/12/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 1296 Public Employee Health Benefits: Disclosures
Requires a health benefit plan or contract, or entities offering services relating to the administration of health benefit plans, to disclose to the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System the cost, utilization, and actual provider claim payments on behalf of each member and annuitant for all health care services rendered, including the allowance amounts for services billed. Deems this information confidential, subject to evidentiary trade secret protections.
  • 04/09/2007 - To ASSEMBLY Committees on PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY and JUDICIARY.
  • 04/09/2007 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY with author's amendments.
  • 04/09/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY.
CA A 1468 Hospitals: Patient Data
Relates to existing law that requires every organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility, and the officers thereof, to make and file prescribed reports with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and in the case of hospitals, one of these reports is a hospital discharge abstract data record on each patient. Adds citizenship status to the required items of information.
  • 04/10/2007 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH with author's amendments.
  • 04/10/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HEALTH.
CA A 1624 Public Employees: Retirement: Workers Compensation
Relates to the conversion of a retired patrol member's disability retirement to a service retirement allowance, the provisions governing the disallowance of a disability retirement allowance for refusal to submit to a medical examination, the requirement for specified members receiving disability retirement to undergo a medical examination, allowing workers' compensation fraud investigators of the Highway Patrol access to medical records, employer liability for supplemental job displacement benefits.
  • 04/10/2007 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE with author's amendments.
  • 04/10/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on INSURANCE.
CA S 164 Prenatal Screening
Changes the name of the Birth Defects Monitoring Program to the Birth Defects Monitoring and Biomedical Resources Program. Requires the Department of Public Health to charge investigators who are approved by the department to use pregnancy blood for research purposes, a fee for costs related to data linkage, storage, retrieval, processing, data entry, reinventory, and shipping of pregnancy blood or its components, and related data management. Protects identifying information.
  • 04/09/2007 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS with author's amendments.
  • 04/09/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA S 350 Hospitals: Discount Payment and Charity Care
Relates to hospital charity care and out-of-pockets expenses being determined as medical services and medications, the eligibility for discount payments and charity care by a hospital, limits the requirement that any extended payment plans offered by a hospital to situations where all the payments are timely made, and prohibits reporting adverse information to a consumer credit reporting agency or commencement of a civil action within 30 days of the first default.
  • 04/11/2007 - From SENATE Committee on HEALTH with author's amendments.
  • 04/11/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HEALTH.
CA A 381 Medi-Cal: Provider Reimbursement
Applies a provision of existing law that prohibits a provider under the Medi-Cal program from submitting a reimbursement request to the program that contains a beneficiaries social security number to the submission of a request by a provider for beneficiary eligibility. Deletes the limitation on this prohibition to those instances in which the request is submitted in order to receive payment. Amends existing law by exempting from this prohibition a hospital-based physician.
  • 04/10/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 436 Medical Records
Eliminates the repeal date of certain provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) relating to the provision of health insurance and the protection of privacy of individually identifiable health information. Revises exceptions established under the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act regarding parties to whom medical information may be disclosed without a patients authorization. Provides for handling of medical records by certain providers of health services.
  • 04/09/2007 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH with author's amendments.
  • 04/09/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HEALTH.
CA A 543 Ambulatory Surgical Centers: Licensure
Redesignates a surgical clinic as an ambulatory surgical center for purposes of licensure and regulatory requirements. Requires any person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation desiring a license for an ambulatory surgical center to meet prescribed operational, staffing, and licensing standards. Requires the Department of Health Services to perform initial inspections of such centers and to perform specified periodic inspections. Requires a training program for inspection personnel.
  • 04/10/2007 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA S 661 Healing Arts: Anatomic Pathology Services
Relates to provisions prohibiting healing arts practitioners from charging for anatomic pathology services, if such services were not actually rendered by the practitioner. Requires a clinical laboratory and a physician and a surgeon providing anatomic pathology services to directly bill the patient, the 3rd party payer, the clinical laboratory that referred a sample, or the requesting hospital or clinic for the services. Exempts billings for anatomic pathology services.
  • 04/10/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
United States
Bill Summary Latest Action
US S 1019

 


United States Health Care System Comprehensive Reform
Provides comprehensive reform of the health care system of the United States, relates to other purposes.
  • 03/28/2007 - INTRODUCED.
  • 03/28/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time.
  • 03/28/2007 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
US H 1841

 


Health Insurance Coverage to All Residents
Amends the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an AmeriCare that assures the provision of health insurance coverage to all residents, and for other purposes.
  • 03/29/2007 - INTRODUCED.
  • 03/29/2007 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
  • 03/29/2007 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
  • 03/29/2007 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND LABOR.
California
Bill Summary Latest Action
CA A 1155

 


Health Care Service Plans
Requires the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care, upon a final determination that a health care service plan has underpaid or failed to pay a provider, to assess an administrative penalty and to require the plan to pay the provider, at a minimum, the amount owed plus interest. Authorizes the Director to exempt a plan from paying the penalty if the Director makes a written finding that paying both the penalty and the provider would jeopardize the financial solvency of the plan.
• 04/17/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 1226 Medi-Cal: Provider Enrollment
Provides that a physician enrolled and in good standing in the Medi-Cal program who is changing locations within the same county is eligible to continue enrollment at the new location by filing a change of location form, in lieu of submitting a complete application package. Provides a procedure for the expedited enrollment in the program of any licensed physician and surgeon who meet specified conditions.
• 04/17/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 1296 Public Employee Health Benefits: Disclosures
Requires a health benefit plan or contract, or entities offering services relating to the administration of health benefit plans, to disclose to the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System the cost, utilization, and actual provider claim payments on behalf of each member and annuitant for all health care services rendered, including the allowance amounts for services billed. Deems this information confidential, subject to evidentiary trade secret protections.
• 04/19/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
CA A 1401 Insurance Fraud: Assessments
Relates to existing law that provides that the costs of administration and operation of the Fraud Division are to be borne by all of the insurers admitted to transact business in the state. Provides the assessment shall not exceed a specified amount each fiscal year. Provides the assessment for each company not exceed a new specified amount each fiscal year. Requires the Department of Insurance to annually post on its Internet Web site fraud investigative program performance outcomes.
• 04/17/2007 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE with author's amendments.
• 04/17/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on INSURANCE.
CA S 164 Prenatal Screening
Changes the name of the Birth Defects Monitoring Program to the Birth Defects Monitoring and Biomedical Resources Program. Requires the Department of Public Health to charge investigators who are approved by the department to use pregnancy blood for research purposes, a fee for costs related to data linkage, storage, retrieval, processing, data entry, reinventory, and shipping of pregnancy blood or its components, and related data management. Protects identifying information.
• 04/18/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
CA S 350 Hospitals: Discount Payment and Charity Care
Relates to hospital charity care and out-of-pockets expenses being determined as medical services and medications, the eligibility for discount payments and charity care by a hospital, limits the requirement that any extended payment plans offered by a hospital to situations where all the payments are timely made, and prohibits reporting adverse information to a consumer credit reporting agency or commencement of a civil action within 30 days of the first default.
• 04/18/2007 - From SENATE Committee on HEALTH: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 381 Medi-Cal: Provider Reimbursement
Applies a provision of existing law that prohibits a provider under the Medi-Cal program from submitting a reimbursement request to the program that contains a beneficiaries social security number to the submission of a request by a provider for beneficiary eligibility. Deletes the limitation on this prohibition to those instances in which the request is submitted in order to receive payment. Amends existing law by exempting from this prohibition a hospital-based physician.
• 04/18/2007 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar.
CA A 543 Ambulatory Surgical Centers: Licensure
Redesignates a surgical clinic as an ambulatory surgical center for purposes of licensure and regulatory requirements. Requires any person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation desiring a license for an ambulatory surgical center to meet prescribed operational, staffing, and licensing standards. Requires the Department of Health Services to perform initial inspections of such centers and to perform specified periodic inspections. Requires a training program for inspection personnel.
• 04/17/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA S 840 Single-Payer Health Care Coverage
Establishes the State Universal Healthcare System. Makes all state residents eligible for specified health care benefits under the system, which would, on a single-payer basis, negotiate for or set fees for health care services provided through the system and pay claims for those services. Creates the Universal Healthcare Policy Board to establish policy on medical issues and various other matters relating to the system.
• 04/18/2007 - From SENATE Committee on HEALTH: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
United States
Bill Summary Latest Action
US S 1019

 


United States Health Care System Comprehensive Reform
Provides comprehensive reform of the health care system of the United States, relates to other purposes.
• 03/28/2007 - INTRODUCED.
• 03/28/2007 - In SENATE. Read second time.
• 03/28/2007 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
US H 1841 Health Insurance Coverage to All Residents
Amends the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an AmeriCare that assures the provision of health insurance coverage to all residents, and for other purposes.
• 03/29/2007 - INTRODUCED.
• 03/29/2007 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
• 03/29/2007 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
• 03/29/2007 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND LABOR.
California
Bill Summary Latest Action
CA A 1268 Medi-Cal: Fiscal Intermediary Services
Requires each Medi-Cal program contract for fiscal intermediary services to require that the fiscal intermediary contractor allow every provider that meets the requirements and standards imposed by the Department of Health Care Services to utilize electronic means for transmitting claims to the fiscal intermediary contractor. Requires the fiscal intermediary contractor to issue an annual quality assurance claim accuracy report that details the number and types of claims received and payments issued.
  • 04/25/2007 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
CA A 1296 Public Employee Health Benefits: Disclosures
Requires a health benefit plan or contract, or entities offering services relating to the administration of health benefit plans, to disclose to the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System the cost, utilization, and actual claim payments on behalf of each member and annuitant for all health care services rendered by hospitals, including the allowance amounts for services billed. Deems this information confidential, subject to evidentiary trade secret protections.
  • 04/24/2007 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 1401 Insurance Fraud: Assessments
Relates to existing law that provides that the costs of administration and operation of the Fraud Division are to be borne by all of the insurers admitted to transact business in the state. Provides the assessment shall not exceed a specified amount each fiscal year. Provides the assessment for each company not exceed a new specified amount each fiscal year. Requires the Department of Insurance to annually post on its Internet Web site fraud investigative program performance outcomes.
  • 04/25/2007 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA A 1468 Hospitals: Patient Data
Relates to existing law that requires every organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility, and the officers thereof, to make and file prescribed reports with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and in the case of hospitals, one of these reports is a hospital discharge abstract data record on each patient. Adds citizenship status to the required items of information.
  • 04/24/2007 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Failed passage.
  • 04/24/2007 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Reconsideration granted.
CA A 1624 Public Employees: Retirement: Workers Compensation
Relates to the conversion of a retired patrol member's disability retirement to a service retirement allowance, the provisions governing the disallowance of a disability retirement allowance for refusal to submit to a medical examination, the requirement for specified members receiving disability retirement to undergo a medical examination, allowing workers' compensation fraud investigators of the Highway Patrol access to medical records, employer liability for supplemental job displacement benefits.
  • 04/25/2007 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE: Not heard.
CA A 381 Medi-Cal: Provider Reimbursement
Applies a provision of existing law that prohibits a provider under the Medi-Cal program from submitting a reimbursement request to the program that contains a beneficiaries social security number to the submission of a request by a provider for beneficiary eligibility. Deletes the limitation on this prohibition to those instances in which the request is submitted in order to receive payment. Provides an exemption for a licensed hospital, long-term care facility, or a hospital-based physician.
  • 04/26/2007 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
CA S 661 Healing Arts: Anatomic Pathology Services
Relates to provisions prohibiting healing arts practitioners from charging for anatomic pathology services, if such services were not actually rendered by the practitioner. Requires a clinical laboratory and a physician and a surgeon providing anatomic pathology services to directly bill the patient, the 3rd party payer, the clinical laboratory that referred a sample, or the requesting hospital or clinic for the services. Exempts billings for anatomic pathology services.
  • 04/23/2007 - From SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECON. DEVELOPMENT: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA S 883 Victims Compensation
Relates to crime victims compensation by the California Victims Compensation and Government Claims Board. Increases the limitation on an award for outpatient mental health counseling. Eliminates the board's authority to establish maximum service limitations for reimbursement of services.
  • 04/24/2007 - From SENATE Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Do pass as amended to Committee on RULES.
CA S 962 Umbilical Cord Blood Biomedical Resources Program
Requires the Department of Health Services to establish a state Umbilical Cord Blood Biomedical Resources Program to collect, process, and store umbilical cord blood stem cells for the purposes of transplantation and research. Requires the department to establish fees relating to these purposes to cover the costs of administering the program. Sets forth various duties in implementing the program. Creates a related fund. Relates to the security and confidentiality of a donor's personal information.
  • 04/24/2007 - From SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
United States
Bill Summary Latest Action
US H 1328

 


The Indian Health Care Improvement Act
Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that Act.
  • 04/25/2007 - In HOUSE Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES: Consideration and mark-up session held.
  • 04/25/2007 - In HOUSE Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES: Ordered to be reported as amended.