600+ Pro-Kid Organizations Unite to Make Sure Kids Get the Care They Need

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August 2025

The Honorable Buffy Wicks, Chair
Assembly Committee on Appropriations
1021 O Street, Suite 8220
Sacramento, CA 95814

Cc: Speaker Robert Rivas, President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire, Senator Scott Wiener

RE: Support for SB 363 (Wiener) Health Denial Transparency

Dear Chair Wicks,

We, the undersigned organizations, are pleased to SUPPORT SB 363 (Wiener).

For far too long, parents and guardians have had to overcome bureaucratic hurdles to get critical healthcare services for their children, an uphill battle that is time-consuming, confusing, and traumatic. Parents shouldn’t have to fight health plans to get needed care for their kids, especially since the plans have already been paid to provide that care.

That is why we support SB 363, which seeks to revolutionize this system. We aim to hold health insurers accountable for baseless coverage denials and provide the transparency needed to understand why denial rates are on the rise.

Specifically, SB 363 requires health insurers to report to the State of California any denials and modifications made to provider-recommended care. This information will be made publicly available. In addition, the bill mandates fines for those health plans that egregiously deny care. By imposing these fines, SB 363 will incentivize health insurers to make sure that the denials they are making are reasonable and that they are transparent in their actions.

Parents, caregivers and healthcare providers have raised the alarm that treatment denial rates have increased in recent years. Nearly three in four providers reported an increase in denials between 2022-2024. Hospitals reported a 20% increase in private insurance coverage denials from 2022 to 2023. Data from California’s Independent Medical Review (IMR) system shows that these are not good-faith denials—of the denials that are escalated to the IMR process, more than 72% are overturned or reversed, indicating that many people are missing out on recommended, lifesaving care. We know that IMRs represent only the small fraction of denials that are appealed, and it is crucial that we know how often health care is denied but never appealed.

SB 363 will incentivize health insurers to make sure that health care denials are evidence-based and transparently disclosed.

SB 363 ensures that health insurers can no longer operate behind closed doors but must instead provide the care they are obligated to deliver. For these reasons and more, we respectfully urge your vote on SB 363.

Sincerely,
The Undersigned Organizations

2-1-1 Humboldt Information and Resource Center
211 Tulare County
3Strands Global Foundation
A B L E Community Development Foundation
A Better Way, Inc.
A Coming of Age Foster Family Agency
A Greater Hope
AAPI Equity Alliance
Abbey of Saint Mary Theotokos, Inc.
AbilityPath
Advocates for Child Empowerment and Safety
Advocates for Peace & Justice, Irvine United Church of Christ
Advokids
Aeries Software
African American Network of Kern County, Inc.
African American Wellness Center for Children & Families
African Diaspora Network
Agape Villages Foster Family Agency
Alan M Vietze, LCSW
ALAS Ayudando Latinos a Soñar
Alder Graduate School of Education
ALL ACCESS ARTS
Alliance for Children’s Rights
Alliance for Community Empowerment
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
Alliance of Relative Caregivers
Almaden Valley Counseling Service
Almaden Valley Rotary Club
Alphabet Soup Childcare, Inc.
Altura Centers for Health
Alum Rock Counseling Center
American Academy of Pediatrics, California
American Muslim Community Foundation
American Society for the Positive Care of Children (SPCC)
American Sports Institute
Amundson Consulting
Angels In Waiting
Arts Bridging the Gap
Asian Health Services
Aspiranet
Auntie Dobbie’s Kids
Autism Center of Northern California
Autism Deserves Equal Coverage Foundation
Autism Speaks
Avant-Garde Foster Family Agency
Back to the Start
BANANAS, Inc.
Barbara Stroud Training and Consultation
Bay Area Academy
Bay Area Adult Soccer League (BAASL)
Bay Area Community Services
Bay Area Professional Family Child Care Network
Bay Area STEM Ecosystem
Bay Area Tutoring Association and Code Writing Kids
Beyond Athletics Orange County
Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Luis Obispo County
Black Mental Health Task Force
Black Women Rally for Action – Los Angeles County
Blessings Foundation, Inc.
BonusBabies.org
BOSS, Inc.
Bounce Back Generation
Bourne and Associates
Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach
Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe
Boys & Girls Club of Mid Central Coast
Boys & Girls Club of Moorpark & Simi Valley
Boys & Girls Clubs of Kern County
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sequoias
Brain Wise Solutions Group, Inc.
braverie
Bridge the Gap College Prep
Brooke Frost and Associates
BUILD
Build the Future: Investing in Childcare for a Stronger Economy
Build Up San Mateo County
Butte College Foster Kinship Care Education Program (FKCE)
Calculus Roundtable
California Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
California AfterSchool Network
California Alliance of Caregivers
California Alliance of Child and Family Services
California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (CASCD)
California Behavioral Health Association
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network
California Children’s Hospital Association
California Community Action Partnership Association
California Counseling Associates
California Early Childhood Mentor Program
California Education Partners
California Health Collaborative
California LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network
California Newsreel
California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice
California School-Age Consortium
California School-Based Health Alliance
California STEM Network
California Women Neutrals
California Women’s Law Center
Canal Alliance
Canary Health
Canoga Park Youth Arts Center
Capital Stage
Care Parent Network
Carolynn’s Montessori for Toddlers
CASA of Fresno and Madera Counties
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families
Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County
Caulder Lamm Alliance for Children, Inc.
Center for Autism and Related Disorders
Center for District Innovation and Leadership in Early Education
Center for Engineering, Science, and Mathematics Education – Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Center for Family Strengthening
Center for Farmworker Families
Center for Health Justice
Center for Judicial Excellence
Center for Leadership, Equity, and Research (CLEAR)
Center for Oral Health
Center for Reaching and Teaching the Whole Child
Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)
Central California Asthma Collaborative
Central Coast Early Childhood Advocacy Network
Central Coast YMCA
Central Valley Scholars
Centro Del Inmigrante
Centro Latino de San Francisco
Ceres Community Project
CFRI – Cystic Fibrosis Research Institute
Chamber San Mateo County
Change Begins With ME (Indivisible)
Cherryland Elementary School – Hayward Unified School District
Child Abuse Prevention Council of Contra Costa County
Child Abuse Prevention Council of San Joaquin County
Child Advocates of Contra Costa County
Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County
Child Development Institute
Childcare Business Institute
Children Now
Children’s Advocacy Institute
Children’s Cause Orange County
Children’s Institute
Children’s Network of Solano County
Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento
Children’s Specialty Care Coalition
Club 21 Learning and Resource Center
Club Stride, Inc.
CocoKids
Common Ground Society
Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice
Community Access Center-Riverside
Community Action Marin
Community Food Bank of San Benito County
Community Foundation of Merced County
Community Health Partnership
Community Housing and Shelter Services
Community Institute for Psychotherapy
Community Investment Strategies
Community Now
Community Youth Center
Comprehensive Youth Services of Fresno, Inc.
Compton Jr. Equestrians
Computers 4 Kids
Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (COPE)
Contemporary Policies Institute
Contra Costa Youth Service Bureau
CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater
Cookie Good
Cope Consulting LLC
Courage California
Cradle to Career Santa Cruz County
Creative Alternatives
Creative Minds Children’s House
Crime Survivors, Inc.
Danger Aware
Determined to Succeed
Diaz Family Foundation
Disability Community Resource Center
Doors of Change
Dovetail Learning
Dreams for Schools
Dunsmuir Community Resource Center
Early Education Action League
East Bay Asian Youth Center (EBAYC)
East Bay Children’s Law Offices
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
East Contra Costa Community Alliance
Easterseals Southern California
Eastmont Community Center
Eastside College Preparatory School
ECEPTS (Early Care & Education Pathways to Success)
EcoBirth – Women for Earth and Birth
Ecumenical Hunger Program
EDMO (Edventure More)
Educate California
Educate. Advocate.
Educators 4 Excellence – Los Angeles
El Rescate
El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center – Riverside
El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center – San Bernardino
El Sol Science and Arts Academy
Elemental Synchronicity
Elementary Institute of Science
End Child Poverty in California (ECPCA)
Enriching Lives through Music
Ensuring Opportunity Campaign to End Poverty in Contra Costa
Ersoylu Consulting
Escuela de la Raza Unida
EveryChild California
Everychild Foundation
Evolve California
Exceptional Family Center
Exceptional Needs Network
Expressions of Hope
FACTS (Families Advocating for Chemical and Toxics Safety)
Fallbrook Artists Association
Families Forward Learning Center
Family F.O.C.U.S.
Family Healing Center
Family Paths, Inc.
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County
Family Voices of California
FAS Services
Feel the Bern San Fernando Valley
First 5 California
First 5 Mendocino
First 5 Monterey County
First 5 Orange County
First 5 Sacramento
First 5 San Benito County
First 5 San Francisco
First 5 San Mateo County
FIRST 5 Santa Clara County
First 5 Santa Cruz County
First 5 Siskiyou Children and Families Commission / Siskiyou Child Abuse Prevention Council
First 5 Solano
First 5 Tulare County
First Congregational Church of Palo Alto
First Graduate
FirstGen America
Footsteps Child Care, Inc.
Forget Me Not Children’s Services
Fostering UNITY
Fostering Wishes
Freely in Hope
Fresno Community Health Improvement Partnership (FCHIP)
Fresno Council on Child Abuse Prevention
Fresno Fire Chief’s Foundation
Friends Committee on Legislation of California
Friends of the Children L.A.
Full Court Press Communications
Fundación Valladolid
FundaMental Health
Futures Without Violence
Galperin Associates Inc.
Gardner Rodriguez
Gateway School
Girls Health Ed
Give Every Child A Chance
Give for a Smile
Go Kids, Inc.
Good Samaritan Family Resource Center
Good2Know Partners
Grail Family Services
Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco
Haven of Hope, Inc.
Haven Services, Inc.
Healing Together
Health Connected
Healthy and Active Before 5
Hearing Loss Association of America – Los Angeles Chapter
Hearing Loss Association of America – North Bay Chapter
Hearing Loss Association of America – Orange County Chapter
Hearing Loss Association of America – Peninsula Chapter
Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA)
Hearts and Minds of Napa Psychology, Inc.
Heisters Generative
Help Me Grow San Mateo County
Helpline Youth Counseling
Here to Serve
Hidden Truths Project
Hillsides
HIP Housing
Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley
Hively
Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth (HOMEY)
Hope Ignites Southern California
Hope Services
HopeNet of Carpinteria
Hub for Integration, Reentry & Employment (HIRE)
Human Services Alliance of Contra Costa
Humane Society of San Bernardino Valley
Humble Homes Resource Family Agency
Hunger at Home
I’m a Movement Not a Monument
Imperial County Children and Families First Commission (First 5 Imperial)
In A Perfect World Foundation
Inland Congregations United for Change (ICUC)
Inland Empire Community Health Initiative (IE-CHI)
Inland Empire United
Inn at Mavericks
InnerCity Struggle
InsideOUT Writers
Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma
Integrated Behavioral Health Research Institute
Integrated Learning Institute
iSAFE Enterprises LLC
Jackson Community Development Corporation
James Morehouse Project
Janet Dombro, IBCLC
Janet Jacobs, Arts
Janet Levine Consulting
JDM Advanced Advocacy
Jewish Family and Children’s Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
JobTrain
Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency
JourneyGPS
Joyful Parenting Coaching
Just Cities Institute
Just Whole Care
Kalaya’s Destiny
Kamali’i Foster Family Agency
Kern County Network for Children
Keyes Union Elementary School District
Kid City Hope Place
Kid Power Academy
Kidango, Inc.
Kids Community Clinic of Burbank
Kids in Common
Kidsave
Koinonia Family Services
Krause Center for Innovation
LA Best Babies Network
La Clinica de la Raza
Lake County Sheriff’s Activity League
Latino and Latina Roundtable of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley
Law Offices of Barbara A. Goode
Lazarex Cancer Foundation
Lead4Tomorrow
Leading for Kids
Learn, Engage, Advocate, Partner (LEAP)
LEMONADE Creative Consulting
Lincoln Families
Litehouse Children and Family Services
Little Manila Rising
Little Pistachio Learning
Living Jazz
LMT & Associates, Inc.
Lodi Boys and Girls Club
Long Beach Community Table
Long Beach Latino Chamber of Commerce
Long Beach Youth Chorus
Los Amigos de la Comunidad, Inc.
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Los Angeles United Methodist Urban Foundation
LUCHA
Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer
Madera Coalition for Community Justice
Magnolia Public Schools
Make It Happen for Yolo County
Making Change For Children
Margolis Consulting
Marin Child Care Council
Marin County Child Care Commission
Mariposa Heritage House
Maternal and Child Health Access
MaxLove Project
mBOLDen Change
Media Alliance
Mental Health and Autism Insurance Project (MAIP)
Mental Health and Recovery Counseling Education and Training (MHRCET)
Mia’s Homes Foster Family Agency
Mildrie’s Road Foundation, Inc.
Mille – The Fantastic Journey of Parenthood
Milpitas Unified School District
Mindful Methods For Life
MindSpark Custom Learning Solutions
Mission Bit
MISSSEY
Mixteco-Indigena Community Organizing Project
Momentum Youth Sports Training
Monterey County Building Healthy Communities
Montessori Academy of West Covina
Morgan Charitable Foundation
Mountain Valley Child and Family Services
Mountain View/Los Altos/Los Altos Hills Challenge Team
NAMI Sonoma County
National Asian Pacific American Families Allied for Substance Awareness and Harm Reduction (NAPAFASA)
National Council of Jewish Women Sacramento
National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives Inc.
National Women’s Political Caucus of California
National Women’s Political Caucus, Silicon Valley
New Beginnings Residential Treatment Facilities
New Child Fundamentals
New Hope Chinese Cancer Care Foundation
New Horizon Community Services, Inc.
Newman Hall Non Violent Peacemaking Group
Niswa Association, Inc.
NorCal Resist
North Coast Energy Services
North Coast Opportunities
North County LGBTQ Resource Center
North Star Family Center
Oceanic Preservation Society
OMI Cultural Participation Project
One Heart At a Time Foundation
ONEgeneration
Open Source Wellness
Operation Care
Optimal Solutions Consulting
Orange County Child Care Association
Orange County Food Bank
Organic Intelligence
Our Community LA (OCLA)
Our Generation Cares
Pacific Clinics
Pact, An Adoption Alliance
Parent Engagement Academy
Parent Voices San Francisco
Parents Against Vaping Ecigarettes
Parents by Choice
Parents Helping Parents
Partners In Rural Integration and Development Organization
PathPoint
Pathways LA
Peace Over Violence
PEACH
Pediatric Dental Initiative of the North Coast, Inc.
Peninsula Family Service
Perfect Pixel Photo Booth
Peter and Candis Doerken Foundation
PFLAG Los Angeles
Pico Union Project
Placer Independent Resource Services
Plumas County Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission
Poder Popular de Santa Paula
Pogo Park
Poppins Family Services
Positive Results Center
Praxis Health Empowerment
Prevention Partnership International
Project Wish Upon A Star
Promesa Behavioral Health
Puente de la Costa Sur
Quality Matters Monterey County
Raíces y Cariño
Rancho Cordova Food Locker
RCF Connects
Reaching Youth Through Music
Realized Potential Inc.
Regarding Baby
Ringwood Grant Writers
Roberts Family Development Center
Roots Education
Fitch Consulting LLC
Sacramento Cottage Housing, Inc.
Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium
Sacramento Independent Learning Center
Sage Transformations
Salesian Family Youth Center
San Diego Council on Literacy
San Diego for Every Child
San Fernando Community Health Center
San Joaquin Valley Medical Advocates for Healthy Air (MAHA)
San Mateo County Economic Development Association (SAMCEDA)
Santa Barbara Dance Institute
Santa Barbara School of Squash
Santa Margarita Children’s Center
SAY San Diego
School on Wheels, Inc.
Second Chance for Women and Children Inc.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County
seeMYchild
Sententia Vera, LLC
SER, Jobs for Progress, Inc.
Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN)
Serving People In Need, Inc.
Shasta Cascade Health Centers
Shasta County Arts Council
SHIELDS for Families
Sierra Nevada Children’s Museum
Silver Giving Foundation
Simcha Preschool
Simply Friends
Sims Living
Sindy Wilkinson, LMFT
Siskiyou Child Care Council
Siskiyou Community Food Bank
Siskiyou Community Resource Collaborative
Sisters of the Holy Family
Small Business Majority
Smiling Calm Hearts Open Our Learning, Inc. (SCHOOL, Inc.)
Soar Solutions Youth Center
Social Emotional Learning Alliance of California (SEL4CA)
Social Justice Learning Institute
Sol Collective
Solano Family and Children’s Services
SOMOS Mayfair
Sonya Heisters Consulting
South Central LAMP
Southern California Ceasefire Committee
Southland Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Southside Coalition of Community Health Centers
Special Needs Network, Inc.
Special Parents Information Network (SPIN)
SPECTRUM Queer Media
Stand Out Advocates
Stanislaus & Tuolumne Central Labor Chapter
STARRS, UC Santa Cruz
Stein Family Fund
STEM4Real
Sutter County Children and Families Commission (First 5 Sutter County)
Tahoe Family Hearing Clinic
Teams and Dreams Foundation
Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation
Teens4Teens Help
Ten Strands
The Academy Project (TAP)
The Aieste Star Foundation
The Arc of California
The BASIC Fund
The Black Resiliency Project
The Carol and James Collins Foundation
The Center for Advanced Research and Technology HS
The Center for Early Childhood Connections
The Center for Health & Prevention at Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo
The Changemaker Project
The Dragonfly Art for Life
The Emilia Free Foundation
The Emily Shane Foundation
The Foundation for Critical Thinking
The Fresno Center
The Lake School
The Latina Center
The Little Mud Puddles Learning Center, Inc.
The Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health
The Oakland Public Education Fund
The Parent Notebook
The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation
The Praxis Project
The Primary School – East Palo Alto
The Public Works Alliance
The Rhythmic Arts Project
The Salvador E. Alvarez Institute for Non-Violence
The Scott Foundation
The SETI Institute
The Source LGBT+ Center
The Speedy Foundation
The Stephan Center
The Teen Project, Inc., Sanctuary Recovery Center
The Uncovery Collective
The Unity Council
The Village Method
Theatre on the Ridge
Therapeutic Play Foundation, Inc.
Thomas House Family Shelter
Thriving Families CA (TFC) Foundation
Ticket to Dream Foundation
Tikun Olam Foundation
TOOTRIS Child Care On-Demand
Tracy Community Connections Center, Inc.
TransFamilies of Santa Cruz
TransFamilies of Silicon Valley
Transition House
Tree House Hollow Preschool
Tribal Child Care Association of California
Trinidad Civic Club
Two Bit Circus Foundation
UC Davis Upward Bound
UCLA Center for Children’s Oral Health
United Cerebral Palsy of the Inland Empire
United Nations Association of the United States of America, San Diego Chapter
United Parents
Untitled No. 1 School
Urban League of San Diego County
Urban Restoration Counseling Center
Urban Strategies Council
Urban Tilth
Valley Achievement Center
Valley Improvement Projects
Venice Arts
Ventura County Office of Education
Via International
Vision To Learn
Vision y Compromiso
Waking the Village
Walnut Avenue Family & Women’s Center
Watsonville Taiko Group
We Care Services for Children
Wellness & Prevention Center
Wellspring Women’s Center
Western Center on Law & Poverty
Westside Family Preservation Services Network
Wild Iris Family Counseling and Crisis Center
Willows and Dunes Childcare
Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center
Women’s Empowerment
Word of Grace Chinese School
Worksite Wellness LA
WOW Explorations
YES Nature to Neighborhoods
YMCA of San Diego County, Childcare Resource Service
YMCA of San Joaquin County
YOLO FARM TO FORK
Young Minds Advocacy
Young Storytellers
Youth Alliance
Youth Justice Coalition
Youth Leadership Institute Merced
Youth Recovery Connections
Youth Transforming Justice
Yreka Lanes
Yuba City Education Foundation
Zooga Yoga