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Nurses At Los Angeles Medical Center Prepare To Strike
About 1,300 nurses will begin a four-day work stoppage Thursday over disagreements with Kaiser Permanente over staffing and pay.
St. Joseph Health, Providence To Merge, Create Nation’s Third-Largest Nonprofit Health System
The new entity, Providence St. Joseph Health, will include 16 St. Joseph hospitals, including five in Orange County, and 34 Providence hospitals, including six in Los Angeles County.
Anthem Lifts Limits On How Patients Get HIV/AIDS Medications
Patients will now be able to go to a pharmacy to obtain a prescription for the drugs.
Assembly Committee Blocks Parental Leave Law
The legislation would have required businesses with 10 or more employees to let their workers take up to 12 weeks off to bond with a new child.
Lawmaker Blasts Delay In Audit On Overuse Of Psych Drugs For Foster Children
California Department of Health Care Services supplied incomplete information to an audit request from Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, almost a year ago. “At best, this an unacceptable error. At worst, it is the department trying to hide the ball,” he said.
300 Charged In Largest Takedown Of Medicare, Medicaid Fraud In U.S. History
The nationwide sweep exposed alleged kickbacks, embezzlement and fake claims, the Department of Justice announced. In Southern California, 22 people were charged and in Orange County seven were charged.
Administration To Use IRS In Efforts To Enroll Healthy But Uninsured Millennials
Through tax records, HHS will find people ages 18 to 34 who had to pay the individual mandate fee, and reach out to them directly to try to woo a generally healthier population that could balance out the exchanges.
Long-Awaited GOP ‘Replace’ Health Plan Offers Broad Outline, Few Financial Details
Many of the ideas presented by Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans are familiar — such as health savings accounts, high-risk pools and selling insurance across state lines. They would also raise the Medicare eligibility age to 67. However, the plan left a lot of questions about costs unanswered.
Controllable Factors Creating Infinite Loop Of Poor Health For Latinos
The population tends to suffer more diabetes and hypertension, which can exacerbate dementia.
San Francisco Soda Tax Makes It On Ballot After A Few Bumps In The Road
The measure would levy a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary beverages and create a 16-person advisory panel to help decide what programs should be started or funded to reduce the consumption of said beverages in the city.