Source: Lake County News
SACRAMENTO – AB 2674, by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), was signed into law on Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The new law will require the Department of Managed Health Care, or DMHC, to annually review complaints filed by providers who believe a health care service plan is engaging in an “unfair payment pattern.”
Said Aguiar-Curry, “When a health plan underpays or refuses to pay doctors, dentists, clinics and hospitals for their work, it raises the costs of the healthcare system overall. In small cities and towns like those in my Assembly district, health care providers cannot afford to float multi-billion-dollar, multinational corporations.”
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