About 240,000 Californians with job-based health coverage may have been surprised by a recent letter from Blue Shield of California saying the company...
Report: States Increase Cost Controls To Manage Medicaid Growth
With a record 73 million people enrolled in Medicaid, most states next year will tighten controls on spending to battle swelling budgets in the public...
District/municipal supplemental funding update (managed care IGTs)
14-15 QAF managed care funds DHCS and California hospitals are still awaiting CMS approval on the first component of rates submitted for the IGT v...
New California Law Allows Organizations to Buy EpiPens For Emergencies, But Will They?
Justine Saffir, director at the Sunnymont-Westside nursery school in San Jose, keeps in her classroom a spare EpiPen to treat potentially life-threate...
Drug Price Transparency Bill Clears Key Hurdle in California Legislature
Controversial California legislation requiring drug companies to justify treatment costs and price hikes jumped one more hurdle Thursday, just a few w...
California’s Public Hospitals Face New Medi-Cal Mandate
Public hospitals in California will be required to contract with at least one Medi-Cal managed care plan starting in 2018 — one of several changes s...
Obamacare Expansion A Bumpy Ride For Rural Health Clinics
A network of clinics that serves low-income patients in rural Northern California is finally finding balance after being deluged with newly insured pa...
Two Insurance Giants Planning To Jump Into California’s Medicaid Market
Two of the nation’s largest insurers are reaching out to doctors as they prepare to offer health coverage to low-income residents in California’s ...
A Chat With The Head Of California’s Doctor Lobby
The California Medical Association, which represents about 41,000 doctors, has been at the heart of health care deliberations in Sacramento for decade...
Feds Urge State Medicaid Programs To Boost Use Of Long-Acting Contraceptives
The federal government, which spends billions of dollars each year covering unintended pregnancies, is encouraging states to adopt policies that help...