Plain English Breakdown
The official source material confirms the bill was enacted and chaptered, but it does not provide a specific effective date in the text provided.
Telehealth for All Act of 2025
This law requires the Department of Health Care Services to publish a public report every two years starting in 2028 that analyzes Medi-Cal telehealth use.
What This Bill Does
- Requires the department to create publicly available reports on Medi-Cal telehealth utilization beginning in 2028 and continuing every two years.
- Mandates that these reports include data broken down by location, population groups, and social factors to find differences in access.
- Allows the department to add new types of information to future reports if needed to better understand care issues or service use.
- Directs the department to combine Medi-Cal records with other available data sources for these analyses.
Who It Names or Affects
- The State Department of Health Care Services, which must create and publish the new reports.
- Medi-Cal patients whose telehealth visit and claim data will be analyzed in the reports.
- Researchers or members of the public who can access these publicly available utilization reports.
Terms To Know
- Telehealth
- Health care services provided through video calls, audio-only calls, remote monitoring, or other virtual methods instead of in-person visits.
- Disaggregated data
- Information that is separated into smaller groups based on factors like location, age, race, or income to show specific patterns.
- Social determinants of health
- Conditions in the places where people live and work that affect their ability to get care and stay healthy.
Limits and Unknowns
- The law does not specify an exact effective date for when these new reporting rules begin.
- The bill requires reports starting in 2028, so no data analysis is required before that year under this specific act.
- The text states the department must identify additional data elements but does not list exactly which ones will be added.