Broad Coalition of Doctors, Nurses, Hospitals and Other Healthcare Leaders...
SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 11, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "We Care for California," a broad coalition of doctors, nurses, hospitals, workers, and other healthcare leaders, launched a statewide paid...
View ArticleState auditor finds holes in Medi-Cal plans
A calls into question whether there are enough providers to serve the 9 million Californians now enrolled in Medi-Cal managed care plans across the state. Released Tuesday morning, the report finds...
View ArticleREPORT REVEALS MEDI-CAL PROBLEMS
A new report highlights significant shortcomings in the Medi-Cal program — from inaccurate doctor directories to an overwhelmed ombudsman program that has seen the number of rejected phone calls spike...
View ArticleMedi-Cal patients calling for help often got no answer, state audit finds
Thousands of phone calls for help from Medi-Cal beneficiaries went unanswered for a year because the state department that oversees the program didn’t have enough staff or a system in place to accept...
View ArticleCalifornia's Medicaid Program Fails To Ensure Access To Doctors
1:25 PM ET Partner content from Anna Gorman Long waits and lack of access to doctors is a continuing problem with California's Medicaid program, an audit finds. iStockphoto hide caption itoggle caption...
View ArticleDean's List - Fall Semester 2015 (Des Moines Area Community College)
(Source: Des Moines Area Community College) Des Moines Area Community College President Rob Denson recently released the names of students eligible for the Fall Semester Dean's List. To be eligible, a...
View ArticleCOVERED CAL NEARS SELF-SUFFICIENCY
The state’s health benefit exchange, the largest in the nation, is on schedule to support itself by next fiscal year — and that means scaling back this year. Covered California officials released a...
View ArticleCAPS: Sergio Romo Flubs Pitch For Medi-Cal For Illegal Aliens Romo Pitching...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After recently signing a $15 million dollar contract to pitch for the San Francisco Giants, Sergio Romo has taken on the pitching...
View ArticleLife and Death in Health Care’s Trenches
Is a nursing home a safe place? The question is not, is a nursing home a nice place? Not much room for argument there. Nursing home are not popular places. The question here, though, is it is a safe...
View ArticleCalifornia’s undocumented kids could be first to lose medical care under Trump
LOS ANGELES – On a recent rainy morning, Maria Bernal’s stove clicks to life with a bright blue flame to toast bread on a griddle for her 9-year-old son Edwin to smear with peanut butter. As she scoops...
View ArticleObamacare rates to rise 4% in California for 2016
California's Obamacare exchange negotiated a 4% average rate increase for the second year in a row, defying dire predictions about health insurance sticker shock across the country. The modest price...
View ArticleDan Walters: Medi-Cal enrollees soar past 12 million
Sacramento The Supreme Court will soon decide whether residents of states that refused to implement Obamacare are entitled to federal insurance subsidies. Whatever it decides, the court’s decree will...
View ArticleMedi-Cal, Medicare now pay for advance planning of your end-of-life care
Millions of Californians are newly eligible for a health care benefit that could determine the treatment they receive in their final days – and most don’t know it. Medi-Cal, which covers more than 13...
View ArticleSix things to know about the GOP’s plan to repeal Obamacare
The Republican plan to redo the Affordable Care Act was supposed to quell months of speculation about the future of former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. Instead, since its late...
View ArticleTrump wants to make Medicaid recipients work to get benefits. That’s a very...
As soon as Seema Verma was sworn in as the new administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, overseeing America's two biggest health programs, she and Health and Human Services...
View ArticleTaxpayers Foot 70 Percent Of California’s Health Care Tab, Study Finds
This year, taxpayers will cover about 70 percent of what is spent on health care in California, according to a new analysis released Wednesday by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Many people...
View ArticleNew rules to limit Medi-Cal ‘death fees’
Another in a series of columns answering consumers’ questions about California’s changing medical landscape. Six months after her mother died in 2014, Karen Craig opened her mailbox to find a bill for...
View ArticleUnder Obamacare, Medi-Cal ballooned to cover 1 in 3 Californians
California officials never anticipated how many people would sign up for state-run health insurance under Obamacare. The state's health plan for the poor, known as Medi-Cal, now covers 12.7 million...
View ArticleProposition 52: Extending hospital fee would help fund Medi-Cal
Lined up against the likes of legalizing pot and abolishing the death penalty, Proposition 52 is probably the last measure that even the most earnest voters will get around to discussing at their...
View ArticleMedi-Cal rolls could swell under Obama's deportation relief plan
President Obama's executive actions on immigration, which have sparked a fierce political backlash nationwide, could also provide an unlikely boost for another of his goals: increasing health insurance...
View ArticleMore Previously Uninsured Californians Got Coverage Under Obamacare
9:56 AM ET from Lisa Aliferis i Enrollment counselor Vue Yang (left) reviews health insurance options for Laura San Nicolas (center), accompanied by her daughter, Geena, 17, at Sacramento Covered in...
View ArticleWhat Would A Public Insurance Option Look Like?
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The “public option,” which stoked fierce debate in the run-up to the Affordable Care Act, is making a comeback — at least among Democratic politicians. The proposal to create a...
View ArticleObamacare: Key moves by Covered California helped keep premiums down
The nation’s ever-controversial health care law suffered a black eye last week after the federal government announced that next year’s premiums for those who depend on the Affordable Care Act would...
View ArticleAir Force staff sergeant promotion list for August, 2015
The U.S. Air Force's list of airmen promoted to staff sergeant, as released on Aug. 20, 2015. Abadia Christopher Abarawa Emmanuel K Abbott Daniel Patr Abdullah Malizio J Abendroth Marie Ch Abesamis...
View ArticleAdvocates Allege Discrimination In California’s Medi-Cal Program
LOS ANGELES – A coalition of civil rights advocates Tuesday called for a federal investigation of California’s Medicaid program, alleging that it discriminates against millions of low-income Latinos by...
View ArticleAuditor Slams California’s Oversight Of Medi-Cal Plans Used By 9 Million
California health officials failed to ensure that more than 9 million residents enrolled in Medi-Cal managed care plans had access to doctors when they needed them, the state auditor said in a stinging...
View ArticleState Auditor Slams California’s Oversight Of Medi-Cal Plans Used By 9 Million
California health officials failed to ensure that more than 9 million residents enrolled in Medi-Cal managed care plans had access to doctors when they needed them, the state auditor said in a stinging...
View ArticleCalifornia Braces For Medi-Cal’s Future Under Trump And The GOP
California grabbed the first opportunity to expand Medicaid and ran with it, helping cut the number of uninsured people in half in a few short years. Thanks in part to billions of dollars in federal...
View ArticleCALIFORNIA VIOLATES CIVIL RIGHTS OF LATINOS RECEIVING MEDI-CAL, COMPLAINT TO...
(Source: MALDEF - Mexican American Legal and Educational Defense Fund) LCCR letterhead For Immediate Release Contact: Sean Wherley Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 (323) 893-6831 swherley@seiu-uhw.org California...
View ArticleGetting A Medi-Cal Card Doesn’t Always Guarantee Health Care
Terri Anderson signed up for Medi-Cal earlier this year, hoping she’d finally get treatment for her high blood pressure. But the insurer operating her Medicaid plan assigned the 57-year-old to a doctor...
View Article2016 Bar Exam Results
Roll of Successful Examinees in the Bar Exams 2016 Held on NOVEMBER 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2016 Released on MAY 3, 2017 1. AALA, Victoria L. 2. ABAD, Imelda Theresa C. 3. ABADILLA, Lovely C. 4. ABANCE,...
View Article05/24/17 - Southeastern names 3,849 to Spring 2017 Honors List
Wednesday, May 24, 2017 by: Tonya Lowentritt HAMMOND - Southeastern Louisiana University has named 3,849 students to its honors list for the spring 2017 semester. The honors list is divided into three...
View Article5,600 Elementary Teachers examinees pass the Licensure exams for Teachers...
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Board for Professional Teachers� (BPT)� announces� that� 5,600� elementary� teachers� out� of� 53,915� examinees (10.39%) successfully passed� the�...
View ArticleWhere Obamacare's most vulnerable
Republicans say their ACA repeal effort is back on track, and President Donald Trump decides to keep NIH head Francis Collins. But first: The fragile Obamacare exchanges are showing new cracks. WHERE...
View ArticleHillary had a lot of endorsements. How did Susan Sarandon wipe out all these?...
How did Susan Sarandon become so powerful? Is she the new Hollywood kingmaker ? Here's partial list:...
View ArticleTop grads for 2017: the best and brightest from 81 St. Paul-area schools
Welcome to our annual list of high school students who ranked at the top of their graduating class. We present 81 schools this year, public and private, from St. Paul, nearby suburbs and western...
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