The Northeast Valley Health Corp. in Los Angeles County could be a poster child for the benefits of sharing health data electronically. This story also ran on The Orange County Register. It can be ...
California lawmakers are poised to delay the state’s much-ballyhooed new law mandating in vitro fertilization insurance coverage for millions, set to take effect July 1. Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked ...
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 ...
When patients walked into Planned Parenthood clinics, a consumer data company sold their precise locations to anti-abortion groups for targeted ads. This story also ran on San Francisco Chronicle. It ...
DENVER — Seven years ago, Erica Green learned through a Facebook post that her brother had been shot. This story also ran on CBS News. It can be republished for free. She rushed to check on him at a ...
When Colleen Henderson’s 3-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a urinary tract infection or constipation, common maladies in the potty-training ...
Jessie Mazar squeezed the grab handle in her husband’s pickup and groaned as contractions struck her during the 90-minute drive from her home in rural northeastern California to the closest hospital ...
Maurice Clark is homeless on the streets of Las Vegas. He took a survey that should help him get into housing, but he’s waiting. (Angela Hart/KFF Health News) LAS VEGAS — Maurice Clark huddled in his ...
A CARE Court information session for Orange County on Aug. 16, 2023, in Orange, California. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) California’s new initiative to compel treatment for some ...
Jose Ruben Hernandez Gomez reads the names of people who have died in custody at immigration detention centers in recent years during an Oct. 31 vigil outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs ...
A California agency charged with slowing health costs has set a lofty goal for insurers to direct 15% of their spending to primary care by 2034, part of the state’s effort to expand the primary care ...
California this year took the final step in opening Medi-Cal, its Medicaid program, to every eligible resident regardless of immigration status. It’s a significant expansion for an already massive ...