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Latest California Healthline Stories

Listen: Training for Caregivers, Subsidies for Striking Workers, and Contact Tracing via App

California Healthline journalists report on what California is doing to recruit in-home caregivers, how a new law provides health insurance subsidies to workers on strike, and why public health officials are turning to dating apps to track sexually transmitted infections.

How Medicare Advantage Plans Dodged Auditors, Overcharged Taxpayers by Millions

Facing rare scrutiny from federal auditors, some Medicare Advantage health plans failed to produce any records to justify their payments, government records show. The audits revealed millions of dollars in overcharges to Medicare over three years.

‘An Arm and a Leg’: He Made a Video About Health Insurance Terminology That Went Viral

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. Click here for a transcript of the episode. A 30-minute video about health insurance terminology has racked up more than a million views.  Host Dan Weissmann spoke with Brian David Gilbert, the person behind the video.  Gilbert is best known for his videos for Polygon, a media […]

The Disability Tax: Medical Bills Remain Inaccessible for Many Blind Americans

Health insurers and health care systems across the country are violating disability rights laws by sending medical bills that blind and visually impaired people cannot read, a KHN investigation has found. By hindering the ability of blind Americans to know what they owe, some bills get sent to debt collections.

Listen: Teaching Teens to Reverse Overdoses, Taxes on Uninsured Californians, and More

California Healthline journalists report on efforts to train teens to use the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone, the state’s decision not to spend the tax penalty money from uninsured residents, Centene’s political contributions, and efforts to keep young kids on Medicaid for several years after birth.