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The Medical Board of California (MBC) is a state government agency which licenses and disciplines physicians, surgeons and certain allied healthcare professionals in California. The Board provides two principal types of services to consumers: (1) public-record information about California-licensed physicians, and (2) investigation of complaints ...
Consumer protection in California began with the passage of the Medical Practice Act of 1876. The Act was designed to regulate the State's medical professionals, who up to that point had operated virtually unchecked. However, an actual government agency with the legal authority to enforce the Act was not created until 1878.
In 2009, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sent a letter to the federal government for California to opt out of a Medicare program policy requiring that physicians be available in hospitals to ...
The California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHS) is the state agency tasked with administration and oversight of "state and federal programs for health care, social services, public assistance and rehabilitation" in the U.S. state of California.
Over a six-day period from Aug. 15-20, the state department’s help center received 19 complaints from people who said they were not able to get access to mental health services.
Two state-based health insurance regulators is unusual in the United States, and has led to various additional work to synchronize laws. [3] This dual regulation arose due for historical reasons, and when the DMHC was created in 2000, the California legislature requested a report on merging the health insurer responsibilities with the CDI. [4]
In a complaint letter to the Florida attorney general, Dunn alleges the company enrolled his grandmother “for the sake of billing the government for payment for their own financial gain.” The company misled the family about the purpose of hospice — emphasizing benefits such as at-home nursing care and free medications, without explaining ...
A building occupied by the California Department of Health Care Services. A December 2014 audit of the DHCS's Medi-Cal dental care program (Denti-Cal) by the California State Auditor reported that: "Information shortcomings and ineffective actions" by DHCS are putting child beneficiaries at higher risk of dental disease.