By Bonnie Burns, Training & Policy Specialist This is an update to our previously published information about the proposed CalPERS Long-Term Care insurance class action settlement. If you lived in California on February 1, 2013 and had a Long-Term Care insurance policy from CalPERS with inflation protection benefits, and you were subjected to the 85% premium … [Read more...] about CalPERS Long-Term Care Update #8 – Background & Next Steps
Updated Guidance Will Improve Safety and Quality of Care for Long-Term Care Residents
One of many areas the pandemic highlighted that needs attention is the safety standards and access to quality of care for long-term care residents. With residents suffering disproportionately from COVID-19 infections, isolation and lack of care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is working to remedy this situation through it's recently released Surveyor's … [Read more...] about Updated Guidance Will Improve Safety and Quality of Care for Long-Term Care Residents
CalPERS Update #7: Investigation into CalPERS Long-Term Care Insurance Program
By Bonnie Burns, Training & Policy Specialist Following CalPERS’s withdrawal from the class action settlement, the parties held a joint case conference with the court on May 5th. CHA does not have the details of that case conference but we are told that the lawsuit will go to a jury in the fall. In the meantime the executive committee … [Read more...] about CalPERS Update #7: Investigation into CalPERS Long-Term Care Insurance Program
CalPERS Update #6: CalPERS Opts Out of Settlement
By Bonnie Burns, Training & Policy Specialist We have just learned that CalPERS has opted out of the class action settlement ending the current agreement that was scheduled to be heard on June 8th. This means that policyholders will not get any of the options that were described in the settlement. Approximately 70% of class members had opted to end their … [Read more...] about CalPERS Update #6: CalPERS Opts Out of Settlement
CalPERS Update #5: Settlement Decision Deadline is January 28, 2022
By Bonnie Burns, Consultant to California Health Advocates CalPERS policyholders who chose the option of replacement coverage in the Wedding Class Action lawsuit have been notified by mail that replacement coverage was not found. As a result those policyholders MUST make a decision about whether to accept the return of premiums they’ve paid and cancel their … [Read more...] about CalPERS Update #5: Settlement Decision Deadline is January 28, 2022
