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Newsom busy extracting ‘behested payments’ from private companiesFebruary 25, 2021 at 1:43 PM In other states, when a public official asks for a big check from an individual or business that would have good reason to be afraid to say no, it’s called extortion. In California, it’s called a “behested payment.”
A public official can ask for any amount of money. Unlike campaign contributions, there are no limits on behested payments. The money may be “behested” for a “charitable” purpose, which can include donations to non-profit organizations closely tied to the official or to a family memb...Tags: Facebook, California, Opinion, Kaiser Permanente, America, Sport, Soccer, Editorials, Blue Shield, Republican Party, Gavin Newsom, Don, Valley, Schiff, Newsom, Blue Shield of California Foundation 36 people like this. Like What’s next as COVID-19 vaccination drive comes under new management?February 24, 2021 at 8:51 PM  Tags: Health, News, Congress, California, Sport, Public Health, Britain, Soccer, Healthcare, Food And Drug Administration, Long Beach, Fda, Pfizer, Blue Shield, Pasadena, Frank Sinatra 100 people like this. Like Sacramento County Weekly Vaccine Shipment Comes Up ShortFebruary 24, 2021 at 1:47 AM cbsoptanon.onScriptsReady(function(cmp){cmp.ot.targetingAllowed(function(a){if(a) AnvatoPlayer("p0").init({"mcp":"cbs","width":"100%","height":"100%","video":"5332218","autoplay":false,"accessKey":"5VD6Eyd6djewbCmNwBFnsJj17YAvGRwl","accessControl":{"preview":false},"pInstance":"p0","plugins":{"heartbeat":{"account":"cbslocal-global-unified","publisherId":"cbslocal","jobId":"sc_va","marketingCloudId":"[email protected]","trackingServer":"cbsdigitalmedia.hb.omtrdc.net","customTrack...Tags: News, California, Local, Syndicated Local, Sacramento, Sacramento County, Kaiser, Cbs, Blue Shield, UC Davis, Taylor, Kern County, California Department of Public Health, Blumberg, Catholic School, Walgreens CVS 21 people like this. Like Younger students in Santa Clarita-area districts returning to campusFebruary 22, 2021 at 7:05 PM  Tags: Health, News, Education, Government, Sports, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Community, Lausd, Blue Shield, Valencia, Southern California, Melody, Saugus, Santa Clarita 80 people like this. Like COVID Deaths Remain High In California Even As Case Rates PlummetFebruary 21, 2021 at 9:09 PM  Tags: Health, News, California, Israel, California News, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Ap, Cbs, Blue Shield, Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles County, Northern Nevada, Vacaville, LA County, state Department of Public Health 138 people like this. Like Newsom touts new Southern California vaccine pop-ups as counties transition to Blue Shield networkFebruary 21, 2021 at 9:31 PM  Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Government, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Associated Press, Pfizer, Blue Shield, Orange County, Riverside County 134 people like this. Like Newsom Says 7.3 Million Shots Given In California As New Vaccine Delivery System Rolls OutFebruary 21, 2021 at 7:27 PM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP/CBS13) – California’s new system of delivering, tracking and scheduling coronavirus vaccines is being rolled out in select counties, a first step in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to smooth out what has been a confusing and disjointed rollout hampered by limited national supply.
Newsom announced last month that his administration had tapped insurer Blue Shield to design and manage a centralized system to get doses out quickly and equitably. He said the state also needs robust da...Tags: Health, California, Kaiser Permanente, Israel, California News, Fresno, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Kaiser, Cbs, Blue Shield, Disneyland, Prado, Gavin Newsom, Southern California 44 people like this. Like New vaccine delivery system launches in parts of CaliforniaFebruary 21, 2021 at 3:29 PM By JANIE HAR, AMY TAXIN and KATHLEEN RONAYNE | The Associated Press
California’s new system of delivering, tracking and scheduling coronavirus vaccines is being rolled out in select counties, a first step in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to smooth out what has been a confusing and disjointed rollout hampered by limited national supply.
Newsom announced last month that his administration had tapped insurer Blue Shield to design and manage a centralized system to get doses out quickly and equitably. H...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Kaiser Permanente, Government, Uncategorized, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sport, Soccer, Kaiser, Lausd, Blue Shield, Disneyland 39 people like this. Like LA County’s vaccine mission keeps getting more complexFebruary 19, 2021 at 9:26 PM  Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Kaiser Permanente, Government, Paul Simon, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, United States, San Diego, Community, Blue Shield, Disneyland 64 people like this. Like California’s stimulus plan includes $600 for low-income families, business grantsFebruary 17, 2021 at 5:40 PM By Kathleen Ronayne | The Associated Press
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers have reached a spending deal on small business grants, stimulus checks for individuals and housing for farmworkers infected by the coronavirus, Newsom said Wednesday.
It includes a fresh $24 million for a program that puts farm and food processing workers up in hotels if they contract the virus and have no place to isolate, Newsom said as he spoke at a community vaccination clinic in the Coachella Valley, a reg...Tags: California, Sport, Soccer, Associated Press, Blue Shield, Biden, Orange County, Sierra Nevada, Gavin Newsom, Northern California, Kathleen Ronayne, Coachella Valley, AMY TAXIN, Newsom, Steven Hernandez 38 people like this. Like Gov. Newsom, Lawmakers Reach COVID-19 Relief Deal; $600 Stimulus Checks For Low-Income CaliforniansFebruary 17, 2021 at 5:31 PM SACRAMENTO (AP/CBS13) — Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers have reached a spending deal on small business grants, stimulus checks for low-income Californians and housing for farmworkers infected by the coronavirus.
It includes a fresh $24 million for a program that puts farm and food processing workers up in hotels if they contract the virus and have no place to isolate, Newsom said as he spoke at a community vaccination clinic in the Coachella Valley, a region that’s home to many farmworkers.
“It’...Tags: News, California, California News, Sacramento, Rent, Associated Press, Coachella, Blue Shield, Sierra Nevada, Gavin Newsom, Northern California, Legislature, Coachella Valley, Newsom, CBS Broadcasting Inc, Steven Hernandez 2 people like this. Like Details emerge on California’s coronavirus vaccine contract with Blue ShieldFebruary 15, 2021 at 10:17 PM California leaders on Monday, Feb. 15, released the first round of details of the long-promised contract with healthcare giant Blue Shield of California to administer the state’s mammoth coronavirus vaccine rollout. Much, however, was not yet spelled out, including the precise role Los Angeles County officials will play in the system.
Under the contract — which runs from Feb. 1 through Dec. 31 — Blue Shield is now tasked with building a statewide vaccine network “to ensure the rapid delivery of ...Tags: News, California, La, Paul Simon, Sport, Soccer, Lausd, Blue Shield, Central Valley, San Bernardino, Simon, Feb, Los Angeles County, Carson, LA County, Dignity Health 43 people like this. Like State legislators call for more communication on Gov. Newsom’s vaccine plansFebruary 8, 2021 at 9:43 PM When the state in late January announced the rollout of a new website to register for COVID-19 vaccinations, it came as a surprise to some local health officials, who were still working out the bugs in their own scheduling systems and weren’t sure how the two would work together.
Likewise, the news that the state would partner with Blue Shield and Kaiser to speed up vaccine distribution was news to some state legislators, who were so frustrated they wrote to Gov. Gavin Newsom seeking answers.
“W...Tags: News, California, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, San Diego, Kaiser, Blue Shield, Nielsen, Disneyland, Local News, Gavin Newsom, Santa Clarita, Dunn, Bates 40 people like this. Like State’s choice of Blue Shield to take over vaccine distribution spurs questionsJanuary 28, 2021 at 8:07 PM  Tags: Politics, News, California, Kaiser Permanente, La, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Healthcare, Long Beach, Kaiser, Vaccinations, Associated Press, Blue Shield, Oakland, Usc 104 people like this. Like How $20 billion health care behemoth Blue Shield of California sees startupsJune 29, 2020 at 1:39 PM In the two years since Jeff Semenchuk took the reins in the newly created position of chief innovation officer for Blue Shield of California, the nonprofit health insurer with $20 billion in revenues has stepped up its investments in startup companies.
As one of California’s largest insurance providers with more than four million members, Blue Shield plays an outsized role in technology adoption among physicians, hospital networks and patients. With that in mind, and with the acceleration of ent...Tags: Health, Startups, TC, California, America, Tech, Fundraising, Healthcare, Venture Capital, Health Insurance, Blue Shield, Healthtech, Yaro, Blue Shield of California, Extra Crunch, Semenchuk 18 people like this. Like Charity events in the San Fernando Valley area, Feb. 17-24February 17, 2020 at 9:00 AM
Donate blood to the American Red Cross this week. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan/Orange County Register/SCNG)
Here is a sampling of charities in the San Fernando Valley area that need your support through donations or volunteer work.
EVENTS
American Red Cross blood donations: Blood, especially type O, and platelet donations needed. Donation times and locations include: 11:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Feb. 17-19; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Feb. 20; 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Feb. 21; 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 23. Woodland H...Tags: New York City, Charity, America, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Volunteer, Red Cross, Blue Shield, Chatsworth, Local News, Irs, Fundraiser, Valencia, Carol, Ventura 44 people like this. Like Charity and volunteer events in the San Fernando Valley area, Feb. 3-10February 3, 2020 at 9:00 AM
American Cancer Society Discovery Shop on Tampa Avenue in Northridge. (Google Street View)
Here is a sampling of charities in the San Fernando Valley area that need your support through donations or volunteer work.
EVENTS
American Red Cross blood donations: Blood, especially type O, and platelet donations needed. Donation times and locations include: 12:15-7:30 p.m. Feb. 3-5 and 8:15 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Feb. 7 and 7:45 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 8 and 7:45 a.m.-2:45 p.m. Feb. 9 (Woodland Hills B...Tags: New York City, Charity, America, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Glendale, Volunteer, Blue Shield, Chatsworth, Local News, Irs, Fundraiser, Valentine, Feb, Andrew 5 people like this. Like Kaiser’s Woodland Hills Medical Center reopens after week of water woesJanuary 26, 2020 at 2:04 PM After several days of being shuttered, Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center hospital and medical services sprang back into action Sunday, Jan. 27, after securing all required county and state approvals following the repair of a water-main break.
The emergency department, urgent care and pharmacy were fully operational and all scheduled appointments were expected to resume on Monday.
“We look forward to welcoming back our patients and want to express our deepest gratitude to them and t...Tags: California, Kaiser Permanente, Sport, Soccer, Kaiser, Blue Shield, Vietnam, UC, Lax, 101 Freeway, Woodland Hills, LA County, Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center, De Soto Ave, Woodland Hills Medical Center, Brentwood Pharmacy Kaiser 18 people like this. Like Gig workers need health & benefits — Catch is their safety netMarch 21, 2019 at 5:10 PM  Tags: Health, Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Mobile, Ecommerce, Apps, Y Combinator, Finance, Collaborative Consumption, Funding, Tech, Earnest, Ira, Payments, Blue Shield 79 people like this. Like Brandon Nelson’s parents trusted his mental health treatment, but ‘our system failed them’December 10, 2018 at 10:59 AM  Tags: UK, News, California, Sacramento, Sport, Fbi, Soccer, United Kingdom, Blue Shield, Nelson, Santa Monica, Rose, General Medical Council, Justin, Allen, Department 68 people like this. Like Typhus symptoms look like the flu, which is why it took weeks for this San Marino man to be diagnosed correctlyOctober 15, 2018 at 1:26 PM Tom Sachs could barely move from his bed.
He lay lifeless — delirious with 103-degree fever, riddled with aches, chills and extreme weakness.
“I had the chills where my body would shake from my waist to my head,” he said during an interview Monday, Oct. 15.
Doctors told him he had the flu.
After nearly three weeks without any recovery, his wife, Carolyn, called a priest. Although she said she was thinking more about healing than death, Sachs seemed so ill that the priest gave him communion and l...Tags: Health, News, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Glendale, Long Beach, Disease, Blue Shield, Pasadena, San Marino, Tom Sachs, Sachs, Carolyn, HealthCare Partners Medical Group, USC Verdugo Hills Hospital 13 people like this. Like When ACA Insurance Does Not Include Your DoctorOctober 9, 2018 at 10:45 AM Since I left my full-time job in April, my wife and I get our health insurance from the ACA healthcare exchange (called Covered CA in California). We have an HSA-eligible Bronze PPO plan from Blue Shield of California. We pay the unsubsidized premium of $1,200/month to cover the two of us. We received a notice last month from the insurance company that the premium for the same plan would increase 16% to $1,400/month next year. Meanwhile our deductible will also increase by 25%, from $4,800/perso...Tags: California, Marketing, Sutter Health, Healthcare, Kaiser, Health Insurance, Blue Shield, ACA, Northern California, Sutter, HSA, Deductible, Blue Shield PPO, Blue Shield of California We, Sutter Health Basically 36 people like this. Like Single-Payer Issue Drives Dollars Into Gubernatorial CampaignMay 25, 2018 at 8:10 AM Health care heavyweights are pouring money into California’s gubernatorial campaign as the primary looms, ramping up support for front-runner Gavin Newsom and financing attack ads against one of his distant Democratic rivals, John Chiang.
One issue that seems to be driving health care industry donations — and the candidates’ health care rhetoric on the campaign trail — is the prospect of a government-run single-payer system.
Both Newsom, California’s Democratic lieutenant governor, and Chiang, t...Tags: News, California, Washington, Stanford, California News, Sport, Soccer, Blue Shield, University Of California San Diego, Gavin Newsom, Golden State, San Francisco Chronicle, Hoover Institution, Lanhee Chen, U S Sen Bernie Sanders, John Cox 6 people like this. Like California insurer faces whistleblower complaint over health law taxesApril 18, 2018 at 6:56 PM By Chad Terhune, California Healthline
A federal whistleblower complaint alleges that a major California insurer failed to pay an estimated $89 million in taxes on premium revenue as required under the Affordable Care Act.
The complaint against Blue Shield of California focuses on the taxation of certain health plans that are funded by both an employer and insurer. It could spark more scrutiny by federal officials into whether all insurers are paying their fair share of taxes on premiums.
The AC...Tags: Business, News, Medicine, Congress, California, Milwaukee, Uncategorized, San Francisco, Sport, Soccer, Healthcare, Blue Shield, Johnson, Local News, ACA, Irs 29 people like this. Like Rising health insurance costs are a growing worry for aging people, early retireesNovember 2, 2017 at 1:03 AM By Steven Findlay and Pauline Bartolone, California Healthline
Yvonne Read is getting ready to “get slammed” by another health premium increase.
Read, 53, pays more than $2,100 a month for a Covered California family health plan that covers her 57-year-old husband and two young adult children. For next year, the Nevada City, Calif., resident says the premium will go up about $200 a month.
She and her family will have to absorb all of that increase, because their income is too high to qualify fo...Tags: Health, Business, News, Obamacare, California, Washington, Sport, Read, Soccer, Healthcare, Medicare, Blue Shield, ACA, Kaiser Health News, Trump, Santa Monica 15 people like this. Like Blue Cross Blue Shield Accused of Charging Employers Hidden FeesAugust 25, 2017 at 8:28 AM Blue Cross Blue Shield Accused of Charging Employers Hidden Fees
The post Blue Cross Blue Shield Accused of Charging Employers Hidden Fees appeared first on Legal Reader.Tags: Health, Business, Legal, News, Law, Medical, Court, Insurance, Benefits, Case, Compensation, Funds, Michigan, Circuit, Blue Shield, Employer 5 people like this. Like Got Insurance? You’re Going to Have a Frustrating Wait for Rationed Mental Health CareNovember 11, 2016 at 10:20 AM  Tags: Psychology, General, California, America, San Francisco, Treatment, Psychiatry, Policy and advocacy, Psychotherapy, Blue Shield, Rationing, Insurance Companies, Mental Health And Wellness, Mental Health Care, Mental Health Professional, PBS NewsHour 97 people like this. Like State: Anthem, Blue Shield Misled Customers On Number Of Doctors In Covered California PlansNovember 19, 2014 at 3:17 AM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California, two of California’s largest health insurers, misled customers about the number of doctors in their networks under plans sold through the state’s insurance marketplace, according to a state report released Tuesday.
The California Department of Managed Health Care began investigating in May after patients complained they were told that certain medical providers were included when they chose a health plan, only to find out a...Tags: News, California, Local, California News, Covered California, Anthem, Blue Shield, Lee, Sacramento Calif, Anthony Wright, Peter Lee, California Department of Managed Health Care, Health Access California, Darrel Ng |
