The Week Ahead

EVENTS

MAY

Promoting Policies About Exercise, Healthy Eating

Sacramento

MAY

CAPG Conference on Shifting Health Care Environment

Palm Desert

MAY

Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board Meeting

Sacramento

View All Events

FROM THE FOUNDATION

Redefining the Safety Net

Should California establish a Basic Health Program for certain low-income residents? CHCF's Marian Mulkey captures a recent policy conversation in a Health Affairs blog.

Accountable Care in Action

A new post on the Health Affairs blog details how CalPERS kept costs down in Sacramento through a "virtual" ACO with insurers and providers.

Career Opportunity: Senior Program Officer

This position will play a major role in furthering the goals and objectives of the foundation's Better Chronic Disease Care program.

Friday, January 26, 2007

The Week Ahead

Monday

The Department of Managed Health Care will convene a hearing in Los Angeles to discuss insurers' cancellation of individual health insurance policies. DMHC has issued at least two fines to insurers for improper cancellations of individual health insurance policies. Several lawsuits seeking class action status also have been filed.

Tuesday

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is due to receive a report on whether it should ban trans fats from restaurants in the county. The Los Angeles City Council is evaluating a similar proposal.

Wednesday

A subcommittee of the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine will meet to consider the process for replacing Zach Hall as president of the stem cell institute. Hall in December announced that he would leave CIRM within six months.