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State-Led Effort Helps Improve Blood Pressure Control Among Low-Income Patients

Nine Medi-Cal health plans joined the state in a program that helped them stabilize blood pressure among their members — but most still fell short of a federal goal intended to reduce the number of heart attacks and strokes.

Feds To Waive Penalties For Some Who Signed Up Late For Medicare

Medicare has not sent notice of the temporary penalty waiver to enrollees in exchanges run by the states. But Covered California plans to notify its members who are about to turn 65 — or already have — sometime this summer.