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Legislation recently signed by Gov. Brown will allow about 1,000 clinics statewide to bill Medi-Cal for treatment by marriage and family counselors, deepening the pool of mental health providers.
Officials at the state exchange say they have fixed their computer system to stop switching some low-income pregnant women into Medi-Cal without their approval.
Some dental clinics are expanding their hours to meet demand, but can an already stressed system satisfy the needs of children who haven鈥檛 seen a dentist in years?
The public spending on health care outpaces the nation.
Proposition 52 would permanently enshrine a significant source of funding for hospitals and limit lawmakers鈥 ability to change it.
A new health benefit available to millions of Californians encourages people to discuss end-of-life care options with their doctors.
Using run-down motels to care for and temporarily house homeless people recently discharged from the hospital helps stabilize them inexpensively, preventing unnecessary and costly returns to ERs and hospitals.
A pioneering program in southern California provides ongoing care and housing to homeless people who are 鈥渟uper-utilizers鈥 of hospital emergency rooms. The effort is reducing ER visits and saving a lot of money.
The problem won鈥檛 be fixed until September, though the state鈥檚 congressional delegation calls for quick action.
Medi-Cal program provides vital services to HIV and AIDS patients, but providers say it doesn鈥檛 pay enough to allow them to serve everyone who needs it.
How high-cost drugs are impacting California.
Some say the usual methods 鈥 abstinence and therapy 鈥 may not be enough.
New law applies state's low-income health care program to children in the U.S. illegally.
An innovative new approach in Oakland combines low-income housing and a health program for seniors.
KHN鈥檚 consumer columnist answers questions about how people can handle moving between the government health plan for low-income residents and the private plans offered on the federal health law鈥檚 exchanges.
The website Inf贸rmate offers resources and information to help dispel cultural myths that may keep Latinos from becoming live kidney donors.
The proposed compromise would avert $1 billion in budget cuts but still must be approved by a two-thirds majority in the legislature.
A civil rights complaint says low payment for doctors results in unequal care for Latinos.
Tuesday is the deadline to sign up for health coverage that begins in January, so Covered California is boosting enrollment efforts in certain underserved communities.
Federal policy requires that California broaden taxes on insurers to fund Medicaid, but state insurers and many Republican legislators are opposed.
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