A security breach by a private company that contracted with California’s public health department inadvertently allowed unauthorized access to the H...
California Takes On Health Giant Over High Costs
California’s attorney general sued Sutter Health, accusing the hospital giant of illegally quashing competition and for years overcharging consumers...
Thousands Mistakenly Enrolled During State’s Medicaid Expansion, Feds Find
California signed up an estimated 450,000 people under Medicaid expansion who may not have been eligible for coverage, according to a report by the U....
Everything You Need To Know About The New Medicare Cards (But Beware Of Scams)
In April, the government will start sending out new Medicare cards, launching a massive, yearlong effort to alter how 59 million people enrolled in th...
A Health Plan ‘Down Payment’ Is One Way States Try Retooling Individual Mandate
As President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans tirelessly try to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, a number of states are scrambling to enac...
State Pay Cut For Dental Hygienists Who Serve The Poor Was Illegal, Court Finds
California officials illegally slashed payments to dental hygienists who treat some of the state’s most fragile residents, including the elderly and...
New UC-Irvine Center To Study The Highs And Lows of Pot
Jody Jacobson Wedret rolled her eyes after listening to scientists, policy wonks and marijuana advocates expound on pot’s potential to ease the opio...
Hospitals Want To Cut Back On Free Care. Critics Say No Way.
Five years after Fresno-based attorney Joy Dockter started fighting for patients saddled with medical debt, hospitals continue to go after them — ev...
Community Health Centers Caught In ‘Washington’s Political Dysfunction’
With lawmakers facing another deadline this week for legislation to keep the federal government open, one of the outstanding issues is long-term fundi...
Californians Scramble To Beat Midnight Enrollment Deadline
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Blanca Espinoza walked out of a second-story office overlooking one of the city’s busiest intersections Wednesday afternoon, ...