Californians are signing up in higher numbers than they did last year for health plans sold on the state’s health insurance exchange, despite great ...
In House Majority Leader’s Calif. District, Many Depend On Health Law He Wants To Scrap
U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act first and replace it sometime later. That doesn’t sit well with Vi...
Price’s Appointment Boosts GOP Plans To Overhaul Medicare And Medicaid
President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Rep. Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services signals that the new administration i...
Blue Shield, California’s Biggest Obamacare Insurer, Vows It’s Not ‘Running For The Hills’
The chief executive of Blue Shield of California, the largest insurer on the state-run marketplace, says he’s committed to selling coverage there ev...
California Voters Divided On Drug Price Ballot Measure But Support Other Health Initiatives
Less than a week before the election, California voters’ support for Proposition 61 appears to have eroded, and they are now evenly split on the con...
Blue Shield Again Owes Californians Millions In Health Care Rebates
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...
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...