For the second year in a row, California is boosting pay for doctors and dentists who treat the state’s poorest residents as part of a legislative d...
Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ Justice Kennedy Retires. Now What?
The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has triggered a political earthquake in Washington, as Republicans see a chance to cement a co...
New Hospital Leader Fights Price Controls Despite Reputation As A Reformer
In Maryland, Carmela Coyle is known as a reformer. During her tenure as president of the Maryland Hospital Association, she helped establish a first-o...
California’s Attorney General Vows National Fight To Defend The ACA
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra pledged Friday to redouble his efforts as the Affordable Care Act’s leading defender, saying attacks by t...
Health Care Looms Large In Race For California’s Top Cop
Attorney General Xavier Becerra uses a well-worn refrain to describe his role as the state’s chief law enforcement officer: to defend California’s...
L.A. County Unlawfully Terminated Thousands Of Medi-Cal Recipients, Court Rules
Los Angeles County unlawfully dropped an estimated 22,000 people from California’s Medicaid program, including low-income seniors and disabled resid...
Longtime ‘Fighter’ Lands Top Spot In Powerful Nurses Union
Bonnie Castillo’s first experience with organized labor dates to the mid-1960s, when she was just 5. Her father was a railroad worker in Sacramento,...
Tax-Funded Mental Health Programs Not Always Easy To Find
Back in 2008, Mary Hogden was homeless, living on the streets of Berkeley. “I got beat up really badly out there,” says Hogden, 62. “It’s not ...
Study: Nearly Three-Quarters Of Commonly Used Medical Scopes Tainted By Bacteria
In an ominous sign for patient safety, 71 percent of reusable medical scopes deemed ready for use on patients tested positive for bacteria at three ma...
Former California State Contractor Sued Over Breach Of HIV Patient Privacy
A security breach by a private company that contracted with California’s public health department inadvertently allowed unauthorized access to the H...