October 2017
Selling Health Insurance Across State Lines
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This policy snapshot provides an overview of efforts to introduce buying health insurance "across state lines" federally and within California within the past 10 years, along with findings from CHBRP analyses of related California legislation and how the findings inform current discussion. 

Policy Snapshot
October 2017
Federal Contraceptive Mandate and California Laws
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This policy snapshot is intended to help readers understand the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) federal contraceptive coverage mandate, California's more recent state coverage laws, and the variability between those laws.

Policy Snapshot
July 2015
Analysis: California's EHB Base Benchmark Options
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This issue brief analyzes and compares the health services covered by the ten plans available to California as options for the EHB benchmark plan for effective in 2017.

Issue Brief
December 2013
Pediatric Dental and Pediatric Vision Essential Health Benefits
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This issue brief describes the choices California has made to comply with the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) pediatric dental and pediatric vision Essential Health Benefit (EHB) requirement.

Issue Brief
June 2012
Immunization Mandates, Benchmark Plan Choices, and Essential Health Benefits
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This issue brief provides an example of how state benefit mandates could exceed Essential Health Benefits (EHBs) and how evidence-based analysis may inform discussions of whether to keep or repeal state benefit mandates that exceed EHBs, specifically looking at immunization coverage requirements.

Issue Brief
June 2012
Mammography Mandates, Benchmark Plan Choices, and Essential Health Benefits
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This issue brief demonstrates how state benefit mandates may exceed Essential Health Benefits (EHBs) and how evidence-based analysis of the impacts of such mandates may inform discussions of whether to keep or repeal them.

Issue Brief
June 2006
An Analysis of California Assembly Bill 2185: Mandating Coverage of Pediatric Asthma Self-Management Training and Education
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This report analyzes evidence on the medical effectiveness of pediatric asthma self-management training and education and the impact that mandated coverage under AB 2185 would have on total health care costs, utilizations, and the pu

External Publication
June 2006
Assessing the Public Health Impact of State Health Benefit Mandates
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This report documents the process used by the California Health Benefits Review Program (CHBRP)  in assessing the public health impact of proposed health insurance benefit mandates. 

External Publication
June 2006
The California Cost and Coverage Model: Analyses of the Financial Impacts of Benefit Mandates for the California Legislature
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External Publication
March 2006
Health Services Research as a Source of Legislative Analyses and Input: The Role of the California Health Benefits Review Program
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This article examines the role of the CHBRP as a source of information in state health policy making. 

External Publication
March 2006
State-Mandated Benefit Review Laws
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This report identifies states that have laws requiring the review of mandated health insurance benefits and describes the various approaches states take in reviewing mandated benefits, as stated in the mandated benefit review (MBR) laws. 

External Publication
March 2006
A Comparative Analysis of Mandated Benefit Laws, 1949 - 2002
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This analysis identifies and compares the trends in mandated benefits laws in the United States.

External Publication