The Committee on Psychotherapy for the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), has sent a letter to Department of Managed Health Care Director Mary Watanabe voicing concerns with SB 855. Specifically, DMHC allowing health plans to force terminations of established therapeutic relationships
The CSAP Governmental Affairs Committee recommended to the Board, and the Board concurred on, the following positions with respect to new legislation. Oppose Unless Amended: AB 236 (Holden) Health care coverage: provider directoriesSeek the following amendments:(1) Remove the provision about removing a provider from
Paul Yoder of SYASL testified before the California Board of Pharmacy on March 15. This Board has a standing item on every agenda for the public to request that the Board agendize issues for subsequent meetings. After Paul’s testimony, one of the Board
Ryan Haight Proposed Rule APA has a blog post explaining the two companion proposed rules. View here. Biden’s FY 2024 Budget Mental health could get a boost from President Biden’s 2024 Budget as part of the administration’s roll out of Certified
End of COVID-19 Emergency – What Physicians Need to Know Both the State of California and the federal government will be winding down the public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic. California’s State of Emergency (SOE) ended Tuesday, February
As you may recall, the California Health and Human Services Agency hosted the first CARE Act Working Group meeting on February 14. Both the Working Group meeting presentation and full meeting recording are now available on the CARE Act Working Group webpage.
Attorney General’s Office Also this week, several members of the CSAP Government Affairs Committee and SYASL advocate Paul Yoder met with basically all of the top brass in the State Attorney General’s Office to discuss current prescribing issues. It was
The Steinberg Institute has shared with CSAP and SYASL the language that they intend to amend into AB 459 (Haney). We have discussed this in previous newsletters: it is an effort to put into state law rights similar conceptually to what
