SACRAMENTO — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as ...
Capitol Desk delivers the latest in health care policy and politics from Sacramento and around the state. Have an idea? Let us know. To some, the California Nurses Association’s political tactics in ...
California Again Has America's Highest Poverty Rate: California continued to have the highest poverty rate in the nation last year at 17.7%, tied only with Louisiana, according to new data from the ...
California this year took the final step in opening Medi-Cal, its Medicaid program, to every eligible resident regardless of immigration status. It’s a significant expansion for an already massive ...
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has negotiated a secret deal to give Kaiser Permanente a special Medicaid contract that would allow the health care behemoth to expand its reach in ...
A federal judge has found top California officials in contempt for failing to hire enough mental health professionals to adequately treat tens of thousands of incarcerated people with serious mental ...
Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. California’s cities and counties will be barred from adopting soda taxes for ...
Disability rights advocates sued Tuesday to overturn California’s physician-assisted death law, arguing that recent changes make it too easy for people with terminal diseases whose deaths aren’t ...
[Editor’s note: KHN, which produces California Healthline, is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.] California lawmakers have approved a controversial no-bid statewide Medi-Cal contract for HMO ...
Capitol Desk delivers the latest in health care policy and politics from Sacramento and around the state. Have an idea? Let us know. California insurance regulators announced Tuesday that they have ...
About four years ago, Dr. Gene Dorio sat on the ethics committee of a Southern California hospital whose administrators insisted they could decide whether to disconnect a ventilator from an ...
This story also ran on The Sacramento Bee. It can be republished for free. Patients hurl verbal abuse at Michelle Ravera every day in the emergency room. Physical violence is less common, she said, ...
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