Latest California Healthline Stories
Cities Begin To Count The Scars Of Childhood, And Try To Prevent The Damage
A class action lawsuit in Los Angeles and a task force in Memphis both try to counter the “adverse childhood events” that impair health and well-being.
Sacan a más consumidoras de Covered California sin aviso
Cerca de 2.000 mujeres embarazadas se unen a las filas de consumidores cuyos planes de salud han sido automáticamente, y a veces misteriosamente, cancelados.
La tasa de gonorrea se dispara en California
Nuevos datos del estado muestran que la tasa de gonorrea está disparándose, pero esto podria explicarse en parte por (una) mejor prueba, que está registrando casos que antes no hubieran sido detectados.
Medicare Delays Plans For New Star Ratings On Hospitals After Congressional Pressure
The “overall hospital quality” rating is designed to help consumers who are sometimes confused by the variety of quality measures that the government already provides. But members of Congress had asked for the delay because of concerns that the methodology for the stars was not accurate.
Bill Would Expand Hospital Reporting On Executive Pay
The Assembly’s health committee Tuesday approved legislation that would require hospitals and affiliated medical groups to report the compensation of all executives making $250,000 or more a year.
UnitedHealthcare To Exit All But ‘Handful’ Of Obamacare Markets In 2017
UnitedHealthcare said Tuesday it will leave most of the 34 states in which it offers health insurance under Obamacare, but Nevada and Virginia are two markets it will retain a presence. Company officials would not say if the changes would affect customers in California, but United had a small portion of the Covered California market.
Gonorrhea Rate Has Shot Up In California
Public health experts don’t know if the rise of the sexually transmitted disease is a result of riskier behavior, or because better screening is detecting more cases than in the past.
Competition Suffers Most If UnitedHealth Exits Obamacare In 2017: Analysis
A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis released Monday, a day ahead of UnitedHealth’s expected announcement, finds 1.1 million consumers would have no choice in health insurance plans if the giant insurer drops out of Obamacare marketplaces as threatened.
More Customers Dumped From Covered California Without Notice
Nearly 2,000 pregnant women join the ranks of Covered California customers whose health plans have been automatically — and sometimes mysteriously — canceled.
EPA Chief McCarthy: Public Health Is ‘What We Do’
Gina McCarthy met with Kaiser Health News to answer a range of questions, including how the agency is involved in efforts to combat Zika and the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan.