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Governor Revives ‘Asset Test’ For Medi-Cal Applicants: Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed tackling the rising costs of Medi-Cal ...
Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is the state’s health insurance program for Californians with low incomes, including children, people with disabilities, and seniors. Get the latest data on ...
San Diego Shelters Might Have Had TB Exposures: San Diego County health officials are notifying employees, volunteers and residents about possible tuberculosis exposures at two homeless shelters: ...
HIV/AIDS Prevention Efforts In Jeopardy, Groups Warn: A coalition of HIV prevention organizations, health experts and Democrats in Congress is sounding the alarm over sweeping Trump administration ...
Psychiatric Hospital Abused Patients For Years, State Finds: The state’s watchdog agency for people with disabilities has found that College Hospital in Cerritos (Los Angeles County), a for-profit ...
About half of states have broadened Medicaid, the state-federal low-income health care program, to pay for social services such as housing and nutritional support. The Trump administration, however, ...
About half of states have broadened Medicaid, the state-federal low-income health care program, to pay for social services ...
SACRAMENTO — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as ...
Eboni Tomasek expected to take home her newborn the day after he was born in a San Jose hospital. But, without explanation, hospital staff said they needed to stay a second night. Then a third. A ...
Tina Ewing-Wilson remembers the last time major Medicaid cuts slashed her budget. In the late 2000s, during the Great Recession, the pot of money she and other Medi-Cal recipients depend on to keep ...
Graduates of the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons during Columbia University's commencement convocation on May 17, 2023. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Trump administration’s ...