The move in health care to value-based payments has not solved racial health disparities. In some cases, it's even made them worse.
The state is on the cusp of becoming the first to offer all residents health care coverage, regardless of their immigration status.
New research has some surprising findings that challenge old assumptions about Medicaid.
ER visits grew an average of 4 percent every year from 2010 to 2016.
Focusing on how to finance expanded coverage is often compared to moving the deck chairs around on the Titanic: the whole health care enterprise is sinking under the weight of its high costs, and no amount of shifting who pays how much will keep us all from going under.
Even if the county ever gets a medical school, it is a long-term goal years away and many low-income patients need solutions now.
September 30 is the deadline for renewing coverage for about 9 million children nationwide, and there's been a flurry of media pieces pointing to this month's expiration date. But, is this federally-funded program really in jeopardy?
Is transforming California into a single-payer health care system a moonshot? Not according to proponents such as gubernatorial hopeful Gavin Newsom or the California Nurses Association.
When extremely expensive new hepatitis C medications arrived on the market more than two years ago, private health insurers limited access to the very sickest. Now, two new analyses say that approach is shortsighted and counterproductive.
A hearing clinic trying to balance financial reality with needs of children on Medicaid reaches out for community support.
