Health Insurance and Costs

It has been very difficult to compare the quality of care delivered by California's Medicaid providers. A new effort seeks to change that.

A yearlong effort to obtain basic Medicaid provider data in L.A. was rebuffed. Some health care leaders shut their doors gently. Others slammed them shut.

The need for more affordable coverage is real, but association health plans have had a dismal track record through the years.

“This is really an issue that you can explore in your state no matter what,” said WSJ health policy reporter Stephanie Armour.

One solution to allay the high numbers may be a pilot project the Los Angeles County Fire Department is trying out: a “health care on wheels.”

A Los Angeles County Fire Department pilot project is testing out a a mobile integrated health care unit. The goal is to see if a “healthcare on wheels” model can help alleviate crowded emergency departments

Emergency departments at three hospitals stood out in all of California as the ones that were the most visited in 2016. They couldn’t be more different.

ER visits grew an average of 4 percent every year from 2010 to 2016.

Journalists are playing a key role in highlighting outrageous health care price tags. Why this flood of stories now? And will they make a difference?

The expansion of Medicaid has been key to getting more homeless people permanently housed in Los Angeles and beyond.