Latest California Healthline Stories
The “Kid Glitch”: Could Your Family Fall Into Obamacare’S Affordability Gap?
In my last column, I tackled your questions about choice. Specifically, I wrote about your options under Obamacare if your employer-sponsored health insurance is too expensive or doesn’t provide access to the doctors or hospitals you prefer. Still, my inbox is overflowing, so I’ll devote this column to variations on the choice matter. If you’re […]
Primary Care Provider Rate Bump Delayed
The temporary increase in Medi-Cal rates for primary care providers — which the federal government launched in January — won’t be distributed by California health officials until the fall.
Senate Talks Address Mental Health Parity
It’s one thing to rule that mental health is as important as physical health, but it may be another to enforce coverage of it, according to state officials and stakeholders testifying at a state Senate hearing.
Green House Grows New Model of Care
Supporters of the Green House Project — the first California outpost of which is about to open near Los Angeles — want to reinvent the traditional nursing home model, focusing on innovation, personal relationships and dignity.
Panel OKs Mental Health Parity Bill
The Assembly health committee’s approval of a mental health reform bill late in the legislative session gives the measure a head start on the next session.
Retail Clinic Growth Sparks New Partnership in San Diego
As full implementation of the Affordable Care Act fast approaches and concerns over primary care shortages grow, a new partnership in San Diego illustrates California’s growing reliance on retail clinics to increase access to health care.
Pharmacists: ‘We’re Providers, Too’
When people think of reforming the health care system, they should include pharmacists in the equation, according to pharmacy experts who gathered for a conference this week in Sacramento.
Assistants Could Do More Under Proposed Bill
If medical assistants could do more, then physician assistants could do more, and that would free primary care physicians to do more. That’s the theory behind a bill that won committee approval yesterday in the California Assembly and now heads to a floor vote.
One Year Later: What’s Changed Since the Obamacare Verdict
NFIB v. Sebelius was a court case years in the making. Now, one year after the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Affordable Care Act, “Road to Reform” rounds up how health care has, and hasn’t, changed since the landmark decision.
Transparency Sought for Health Care Department
One of a few bills still making its way through the committee process at the end of the California Legislature session seeks to bring a higher level of transparency to the Department of Health Care Services.