Latest California Healthline Stories
Could ‘Terrible’ Medi-Cal Renewal Form Undermine Recent Gains in Enrollment?
Health care advocates say a “badly designed” questionnaire scheduled to be sent to roughly eight million Medi-Cal beneficiaries could confuse people and result in a big drop in enrollment.
Access, Monitoring Raised as Issues for Denti-Cal Restoration Starting May 1
The Department of Health Care Services is ramping up for the partial restoration in May of adult dental services for Medi-Cal beneficiaries, but concerns were raised at a state Senate budget hearing about the department’s monitoring efforts.
A Few Questions Linger as California Prepares To Eliminate MRMIB Programs
From oversight issues to changing the name of the Access for Infants and Mothers program, a number of caveats arose during the budget elimination of a longtime state agency.
‘Promise, Peril’ of Dual Eligible Demonstration Project Studied
UCLA researchers have been studying the frail and elderly population affected by the state’s upcoming duals demonstration project. In a briefing yesterday, researchers addressed the question: “Promise or Peril?”
New Ads Highlight Residually Uninsured
A new media campaign is aimed at making the public aware of as many as three million Californians who will be without health insurance despite reform successes of Medi-Cal expansion and Covered California enrollment.
Covered California Tops One Million, Now Sets Sights on Doubling Base Estimate
After hitting the million mark, Covered California officials are now setting their sights on doubling the base estimate of enrollees for its first six months.
Lawmaker Pushes for Restoration of State Funds for Senior Services
Funding for the Older Californians Act has been cut from previous California budgets but this year it’s time to restore money to the wide-ranging program, according to one Assembly member.
Covered California Closing in on One Million
With more than two weeks left in open enrollment, Covered California has exceeded its rosiest estimates and is closing in on one million insurance policies — far surpassing estimates made six months ago.
Hearing Looks at High Cost of Medicine
Now that millions of Californians have been added to the insurance rolls through Covered California and the Medi-Cal expansion, one California legislator said the next step should be reducing overall medical care costs.
Accelerated Medical School Proposal Could Yield More Physicians, Less Debt
A new Assembly bill proposes a three-year curriculum at California medical schools — a shorter track that could help students by lowering loan debt and help the state by producing physicians faster.