“Our primary priorities are protecting Medi-Cal, and ensuring we finish what we started with the ACA [Affordable Care Act] expansion of Medi-Cal,” says Jen Flory, health policy advocate at the Western Center on Law and […]
SACRAMENTO, CA – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra expressed strong opposition to a Trump Administration proposal that would allow insurers to sell inadequate, short-term health plans to consumers. The proposed change would flood the market […]
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 […]
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