Department of Managed Health Care: employee assistance programs.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, establishes the Department of Managed Health Care to ensure that health care service plans provide enrollees with access to quality health care services and to protect and promote the interests of enrollees. This bill would require the department to create a report that, among other things, examines and analyzes limitations to employee access to behavioral health for employee assistance programs, as defined, and makes related findings and recommendations. The bill would require the department to issue the report to specified members and committees of the Legislature and to post the report on the department's public internet website no later than June 30, 2024.