On July 28, 2022, The House of Representatives voted 416-12 to pass the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act, legislation that would continue Medicare patient access to telehealth services, including audio-only services, through 2024. The telehealth extension bill will allow telehealth visits to be covered after the public health emergency (PHE) ends.

On July 7, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its more than 2,000-page Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Quality Payment (QPP) proposed rule for Calendar Year 2023.

With its passage in 2020, AB 890 created a pathway to greater independence for nurse practitioners (NPs). Traditionally, the Nursing Practice Act regulated the scope of practice of nurse practitioners by the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN).

On October 10, the California Legislature completed the first year of its two-year cycle for legislative action, with Gov. Newsom signing 770 bills into law and vetoing 66. Of those bills, the majority go into effect on January 1, 2022. Below is a list of some of the bills signed into law in the healthcare space.

The longtime effort in California to expand the scope of unsupervised care by nurse practitioners (NPs) is beginning to take form. AB 890 by Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Eureka) went into effect on January 1, 2021.