ABC 10: California bill takes aim at insurance providers over addiction recovery treatment

Democratic California State Senator Dave Cortese proposed a bill on Monday that he says will advance the way the state deals with addiction recovery treatment.

Cortese says insurers can arbitrarily deny additional medical treatment for patients still in recovery, and says his California Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment Patient Safety and Fairness Act would take away financial incentives that cut treatments short. Read the full story here.