Search results for

Gov. Gavin Newsom is making a bold push for Medicaid health plans to provide more housing support. He argues it’s cheaper to pay for rent than to allow homeless people to fall into crisis.

California is weighing new continuous-enrollment policies for children up to age 5 who rely on Medicaid. They’d keep their coverage even if their household income changes.

MLK Community Hospital in South Los Angeles is surrounded by poverty and homeless encampments. Will Newsom’s health initiative improve access to care?

Centene, which now runs the program, has been accused of overbilling nine other state Medicaid programs and is now under investigation by California.

Thousands of patients are having trouble getting their medications because of problems with California’s new Medicaid prescription drug program.

Gov. Gavin Newsom declared California would cut ties with Walgreens after the company said it would not distribute abortion pills in some states. Federal rules have required him to walk back that hard-line tweet.

Vice President Kamala Harris urges Congress to keep maternal health in the spending package, calls on states to expand Medicaid postpartum coverage.

Medicaid issues are turning up as winners in President Biden’s social budget framework even as divisions force Democrats to hit pause on far-reaching improvements to Medicare.

Operators of other Medi-Cal health plans are angry, saying they will be forced to take the sickest patients while Kaiser Permanente can pick the enrollees it wants.

California will soon require Medi-Cal recipients to prove their eligibility again. But it has a safety net for people who lose their coverage.