State Legislative Issues
November 2023 Legislative Update
What is new in CRA advocacy: CRA continues to work with the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) on the issue we raised with Anthem no longer paying for injections/infusion...
Rheumatology Screening, Prevention and Awareness
California and many other states across the country are focusing increased attention on chronic disease screening, prevention and awareness including such rheumatic diseases as...
Medication Adherence
Poor medication adherence (patients taking medications as directed by their healthcare provider) leads to as many as 125,000 deaths, tens of millions of unnecessary...
Uniform Prior Authorization
On October 1, 2014, the state began to implement the long-awaited Uniform Prescription Drug Prior Authorization Request Form. Certain health plans in California will be required...
Cal Medi-Connect
Cal Medi-Connect is a three-year demonstration for dual eligible beneficiaries to receive coordinated medical, behavioral health, long-term institutional, and home- and...
Covered California and State Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
California was the first state in the nation to pass legislation creating a health insurance exchange, known as Covered California, after the enactment of the federal Patient...
Limiting Step Therapy Policies to Protect Patients
An increasing number of health plans are utilizing step therapy/fail first policies requiring patients to try and fail on less expensive medications before providing coverage for...
Access to Biologics
California law surrounding innovative new biologic and biosimilar medications has returned for the 2015-2016 session. Because of the complexity of creating these drugs, it is...