Attorney General Xavier Becerra uses a well-worn refrain to describe his role as the state’s chief law enforcement officer: to defend California’s...
L.A. County Unlawfully Terminated Thousands Of Medi-Cal Recipients, Court Rules
Los Angeles County unlawfully dropped an estimated 22,000 people from California’s Medicaid program, including low-income seniors and disabled resid...
Longtime ‘Fighter’ Lands Top Spot In Powerful Nurses Union
Bonnie Castillo’s first experience with organized labor dates to the mid-1960s, when she was just 5. Her father was a railroad worker in Sacramento,...
Tax-Funded Mental Health Programs Not Always Easy To Find
Back in 2008, Mary Hogden was homeless, living on the streets of Berkeley. “I got beat up really badly out there,” says Hogden, 62. “It’s not ...
Study: Nearly Three-Quarters Of Commonly Used Medical Scopes Tainted By Bacteria
In an ominous sign for patient safety, 71 percent of reusable medical scopes deemed ready for use on patients tested positive for bacteria at three ma...
Former California State Contractor Sued Over Breach Of HIV Patient Privacy
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...