On Thursday, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) released the revised version of his fiscal year 2015-2016 budget plan, which includes several health care proposals,...
Legislature's Turn To Consider Open Data
Last month, California HHS embraced the open data movement in health care with a decision to make more data available to the public online. Now itR...
Bill Extends, Expands Benefits Review
Who doesn’t like Ch-Burp? The much-beloved acronym CHBRP, belonging to the California Health Benefits Review Program, will get a longer life and...
State Submits $17B Waiver Plan; Advocates Urge Medi-Cal Rate Review
California health officials submitted a Medicaid waiver request to federal regulators calling for $17 billion in health care reform projects in a fiv...
State releases draft 2015 Waiver (Medi-Cal 2020) application
In mid-March, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) released a draft of the 2015 Section 1115 Waiver Renewal application, Medi-Cal 2020. Of ...
State releases draft 2015 Waiver (Medi-Cal 2020) application
Earlier this week, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) released a draft of the 2015 Section 1115 Waiver Renewal application, Medi-Cal 2020.Â...
Five Years of California Health Reform: 'A Tremendous Designed Experiment'
Nadereh Pourat, director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, gives an involuntary gasp when she’s asked where California&...
CHA Official: California's Safety-Net Hospitals Are 'at Risk'
California’s safety-net hospitals often do not have enough patients with private health coverage to offset the cost of treating a high percentag...
CBO Lowers Cost Projection for ACA Over Next 10 Years by 11%
The federal government will spend 11% less on the Affordable Care Act over the next decade than previously anticipated, according to updated figures r...
Another California Superbug Outbreak Linked to Endoscopes
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has confirmed several cases of infections linked to the same type of medical endoscopes implicated in a sup...