California Department of Managed Health Care

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The DMHC protects consumers’ health care rights & ensures a stable health care delivery system. For more info visit http://HealthHelp.ca.gov or call 1-888-466-2219.

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Jul 3, 2025	Astrana Health finalizes acquisition of Prospect Health for $708M	Photo: mediaphotos/Getty Images Healthcare company Astrana Health has finalized the acquisition of Prospect Health, an integrated care delivery network, for $708 million, lower than the originally announced price of $745 million when the co...
Feb 22, 2024	State Reaffirms Right to Contraceptive Care	WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: California is making sure people know about their right to access contraception, including minors, 12-month supplies, and non-prescription emergency contraception. Pharmacists, major pharmaceutical companies, health p...
Aug 30, 2023	What Impact Will California’s New “Transaction Review” Law Have?	On August 31, the Office of California Healthcare Affordability (OCHA) will close the public comment period regarding proposed regulations under a new law that is aimed at providing oversight of certain healthcare M&A deals in the state...
Feb 4, 2023	Legisladores de California intentan nuevamente limitar los costos de la insulina	EN RESUMEN California planea implementar un plan ambicioso para fabricar su propia insulina, pero mientras tanto, los legisladores proponen limitar el precio que pagan por ella los diabéticos. Read this article in English. Mientras muchos d...
Nov 6, 2020	Create a scorecard to help make safety-net providers accountable to patients and the public	California regulators announced last month plans to evaluate whether safety-net patients face improperly long waits to see medical specialists in Los Angeles County, the nation’s second-largest public health system. That investigation — whi...
Nov 8, 2019	Bruising labor battles put Kaiser Permanente’s reputation on the line	As the labor disputes have played out loudly, ricocheting off the bargaining table and into the public realm, some critics believe that the nonprofit health system is becoming more like its for-profit counterparts and is no longer living up...
Nov 8, 2019	As Kaiser Permanente faces another labor battle, critics question its mission	Kaiser Permanente, which just narrowly averted one massive strike, is facing another one Monday. The ongoing labor battles have undermined the health giant’s once-golden reputation as a model of cost-effective care that caters to satisfied ...
Jul 5, 2019	Did your health plan deny you care? You can fight back. Here’s how	Have you ever stepped up to the pharmacy cash register only to learn your new prescription will cost you hundreds of dollars — instead of your typical $25 co-pay — because your insurance doesn’t cover it? Or received a painfully high bill f...
Jun 6, 2019	Kaiser Permanente mental health workers threaten to strike	About 4,000 mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente will go on strike next week at facilities throughout California if they and the healthcare giant fail to reach a new contract before then, the workers’ union said Thursday. The main iss...
Aug 20, 2018	Californians with Blue Shield health plans complain of sudden, erroneous cancellations	Ashley Summers said she got an unpleasant surprise in February when she tried to pick up a prescription for her rheumatoid arthritis: Her pharmacy said her insurance had been canceled, even though her premiums were paid. Summers called Blue...
Feb 13, 2017	California vows crackdown on payers over inaccurate provider lists	Rouillard said she told health plan executives in a meeting last week that such widespread errors made it impossible for regulators to tell whether patients have timely access to care in accordance with state law. “I told the CEOs it looks ...
Dec 5, 2016	Insurance companies need to fix their provider directories	Surprised that information about something so central to health insurance could be so poor, she contacted almost every primary care physician listed as accepting new patients in every local plan. More than three-quarters of those doctors in...
Nov 12, 2015	TeleHealth Startup HealthiestYou Raises $30M to Help Consumers Avoid Expensive Visits	HealthiestYou, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based telehealth company focused on engagement and utilization has raised $30 million in growth investment from Charlotte, North Carolina-based Frontier Capital. The company will use the investment to ac...
Aug 13, 2015	The shortcomings of delivering mental health parity, even in California	“I can’t tell a family whose elderly mother is declining that I can’t provide treatment until 2014,” she wrote to her managers at the Kaiser Medical Center in Oakland in September 2013. In February, two years after assessing the second larg...
Jul 17, 2015	Telehealth App Launches Radar Mapping to Help Patients Find Closest Doctor	HealthiestYou, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based telehealth company focused on engagement and utilization has announced the launch of “radar mapping” – a new way for consumers find the closest care facility from their mobile device. The “radar” f...
	California vows crackdown on payers over inaccurate provider lists	California’s biggest health insurers reported inaccurate information to the state on which doctors are in their networks, offering conflicting lists that differed by several thousand physicians, according to a new state report. Shelley Roui...
	A new California law aims to strengthen access to mental health services	The number of people with symptoms of depression and anxiety has nearly quadrupled during the covid pandemic, which has made it even more maddeningly difficult to get timely mental health care, even if you have good insurance. A California ...
	The shortcomings of delivering mental health parity, even in California	After the state of California fined her employer $4 million in 2013 for violating the legal rights of mental health patients, Oakland psychologist Melinda Ginne expected her job — and her patients’ lives — to get better. Instead, she said, ...
	CA handed its Medicaid drug program to a company. Then came a corporate takeover.	Prescription drug costs for California’s massive Medicaid program were draining the state budget, so in 2019 Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the private sector for help. The new Medicaid drug program debuted this January, with a private company in ...
	Insurance companies need to fix their provider directories	Penny Gentieu did not intend to phone 308 physicians in six different insurance plans when she started shopping for 2017 health coverage. But a few calls suggested to Gentieu, a photographer who lives in Toledo, Ohio, that doctors listed as...
	Bruising labor battles put Kaiser Permanente’s reputation on the line	Kaiser Permanente, which just narrowly averted one massive strike, is facing another one Monday. The ongoing labor battles have undermined the health giant’s once-golden reputation as a model of cost-effective care that caters to satisfied ...

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Parsers VC has collected 22 articles mentioning California Department of Managed Health Care, among them “Astrana Health finalizes acquisition of Prospect Health for $708M” (Jul 3, 2025) and “State Reaffirms Right to Contraceptive Care” (Feb 22, 2024).

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Yes, California Department of Managed Health Care is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 1, 2025.