For Medically Vulnerable Families, Inflation’s Squeeze Is Inescapable
For millions of Californians living with chronic diseases — such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer — or other debilitating conditions, inflation ...
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His-and-Hers Cataract Surgeries, But His Bill Was 20 Times as Much
Husband-and-wife cataract surgeries had surprisingly different costs, with one resulting in an out-of-pocket payment of $204, while the other was ...
No-Bid Medicaid Contract for Kaiser Permanente Is Now California Law, but Key Details Are Missing
California lawmakers have approved a controversial no-bid statewide Medi-Cal contract for HMO giant Kaiser Permanente over the objection of county ...
California Wants to Slash Insulin Prices by Becoming a Drugmaker. Can It Succeed?
California is diving into the prescription drug business, attempting to achieve what no other state has done: produce its own ...
‘Somebody Is Gonna Die’: Medi-Cal Patients Struggle to Fill Prescriptions
A month into its debut, California’s new Medicaid prescription drug program is riddled with problems, leaving thousands of patients without ...
Clinics Say State’s New Medicaid Drug Program Will Force Them to Cut Services
California’s sweeping new program to buy prescription drugs for its nearly 14 million Medicaid patients has alarmed health clinics that ...
After ‘Truly Appalling’ Death Toll in Nursing Homes, California Rethinks Their Funding
Covid-19’s unrelenting spread exposed deep, systemic problems with the quality of care — or lack thereof — at nursing homes ...
Mattresses and Mold Removal: Medi-Cal to Offer Unconventional Treatments to Asthma Patients
Starting in January, California will embark on an ambitious experiment to control asthma in its most vulnerable patients. Medi-Cal will ...