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Tu gasto de bolsillo en atención médica no debe ser un misterio

By Bernard J. Wolfson November 12, 2021

Una ley de California firmada por el gobernador Gavin Newsom en octubre puede ayudar a clasificar una maraña de facturas médicas para entender qué cubre el plan de salud y cuándo comenzará la cobertura.

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California Law Aims to Strengthen Access to Mental Health Services

By Bernard J. Wolfson October 29, 2021

The law doesn’t take effect until July, but its passage should force insurers to expand their rosters of therapists. Here’s how you can challenge your health plan’s mental health services until then.

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Atención primaria directa con un toque de Robin Hood

By Bernard J. Wolfson October 25, 2021

St. Luke’s Family Practice es una respuesta local a los problemas sistémicos de la sanidad estadounidense, como el agotamiento de los médicos, la insatisfacción de los pacientes y el hecho de que millones de personas sigan careciendo de asistencia. 

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Wildfire Smoke Is Here to Stay. Here’s How to Clean the Air Inside Your Home.

By Bernard J. Wolfson September 27, 2021

There are many ways to cleanse indoor air of dangerous smoke particles, which are particularly harmful to people with chronic respiratory and cardiac conditions. Some are expensive, but cheap alternatives exist.

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California abre el Medi-Cal a adultos mayores indocumentados

By Bernard J. Wolfson Photos by Heidi de Marco April 29, 2022

El estado vuelve a ser pionero en su esfuerzo porque todos tengan seguro de salud, más allá de su estatus migratorio.

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Providence-KP Team Up to Attract Patients in California’s Growing High Desert Region

By Bernard J. Wolfson August 4, 2021

Providence, the country’s 10th-biggest hospital chain, says it’s too expensive to upgrade an older hospital, so it will join forces with giant Kaiser Permanente to build a new one.

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Effort to Decipher Hospital Prices Yields Key Finding: Don’t Try It at Home

By Bernard J. Wolfson July 9, 2021

Your dutiful columnist tried to make use of a federal “transparency” rule to compare the prices of common medical procedures in two California health care systems. It was a futile exercise.

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State Inks Sweetheart Deal With Kaiser Permanente, Jeopardizing Medicaid Reforms

By Bernard J. Wolfson and Angela Hart and Samantha Young February 3, 2022

The backroom deal with politically connected Kaiser Permanente, which infuriated other Medi-Cal health plans, allows the health care giant to continue selecting the enrollees it wants.

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Being Vaccinated Doesn’t Mean You Must Go Maskless. Here’s Why.

By Bernard J. Wolfson June 14, 2021

It won’t hurt to remain cautious, even as California reopens for business in response to mass vaccinations and diminishing cases of covid.

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Doctor talking to the patient about menopause and treatment in future.

Can a Subscription Model Fix Primary Care in the US?

By Bernard J. Wolfson June 9, 2021

Medical subscriptions, a $199 million CEO payday and the race to fix primary care in the U.S. One Medical is betting big that a subscription model can fix primary care. But the firm faces competition from CVS, Target and large hospital systems.

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