State of California Codes and Standards Division

The California Department of Managed Health Care helps consumers resolve problems with their health maintenance organizations and ensure a more stable managed health care system. The department's HMO Help Center assists consumers with health care issues. Since the department's inception in 2000, the Help Center has assisted approximately 700,000 Californians to resolve their HMO problems. The department's efforts for a healthier managed health care system include a variety of steps, such as ensuring HMO accountability through prevention and quality of care laws, develop and launch public education and awareness efforts, provide an annual report card on quality of care of the state's HMOs, ensure fiscal accountability for consumer premium dollars and co-payments throughout the HMO system and work to bring managed health care back to its roots of better preventive care. The California Department of Managed Health Care is headquartered in Sacramento, Calif.

The Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) in Sacramento, CA, serves as an independent body housed within the Department of General Services, dedicated to the fair and impartial resolution of administrative disputes. OAH addresses a variety of cases through its General Jurisdiction Division, Special Education Division, and Public Works Contract Arbitration program, ensuring due process and respect for all individuals involved. With a commitment to transparency and efficiency, OAH offers a range of services including electronic filing through its Secure e-File Transfer system and access to hearing dates via web calendars. The office also provides opportunities for state and local agencies to contract for administrative law judge services, fostering a streamlined approach to dispute resolution across various sectors. Generated from the website