{"id":485858,"date":"2026-10-05T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485858\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:00:08","slug":"california-healthcare-tax-draws-suit-from-state-associations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485858\/","title":{"rendered":"California Healthcare Tax Draws Suit From State Associations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California\u2019s new form of tax on managed care organization providers is an unconstitutional attempt to amend a voter-approved measure, according to a complaint filed by two associations representing insurers and doctors in the state. <\/p>\n<p>The California Association of Health Plans and the California Medical Association are targeting <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB125\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S.B. 125<\/a>, which Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) <a data-terminal-id=\"THGN88KIJH8W\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloombergtax.com\/daily-tax-report-state\/californias-newsom-signs-software-other-taxes-in-2027-budget-9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed<\/a> in June to shore up the state\u2019s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal. The measure set an $8.85 per-enrollee, per-month tax on managed care organizations over three years.<\/p>\n<p>The levy was passed to address new federal rules that would reduce the amount of matching funds &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California\u2019s new form of tax on managed care organization providers is an unconstitutional attempt to amend a voter-approved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54563,7,9,8,12876,189916,189915,12877,189914,16709,36431,171637,13437],"class_list":["post-485858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-amendment-of-pleadings","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-constitutional-law","tag-insurance-agents","tag-insurance-brokers","tag-limitations-on-authority-to-tax","tag-managed-care","tag-medicaid","tag-physicians","tag-state-health-care-legislation","tag-state-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}