Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the frontrunner for California governor says he “doesn’t see an alternative” to a taxpayer-financed single-payer health care system run by state government. If California doesn’t drastically reshape the way health care […]
Expanding health plan variety in state Medicaid programs may not lead to improved Managed Medicaid performance. Managed Medicaid performance does not increase as state Medicaid programs introduce more health plan variety, but a single health […]
This week, it was announced that a former employee of a Southern California ambulance company had been sentenced to prison for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare. 54-year-old Aharon Aron Krkasharyan of Los […]
Can a state agency set lower Medicaid reimbursement rates for out-of-state hospitals without discriminating against interstate commerce? The Ninth Circuit answered that question “yes” in Asante v. California Department of Health Care Services, ___ F.3d […]
Several weeks ago, Medicare launched an initiative to prevent seniors and people with serious disabilities from developing Type 2 diabetes, one of the most common and costly medical conditions in the U.S. But the April […]
These days, when the federal government turns in one direction, California veers in the other — and in the case of healthcare, it’s a sharp swerve. In the nation’s most populous state, lawmakers and other […]
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