by Advize Admin | Jun 3, 2022 | Healthcare, Technology
Andrea Veltman and son Merlin lost their health coverage after bad information was entered into a computer system shared by Covered California and Medi-Cal. Andrea Veltman’s subsidized Covered California health plan and Merlin’s Medi-Cal coverage were...
by Advize Admin | May 26, 2022 | COVID19, Healthcare
A fourth-grade camping trip led to one outbreak, a high school prom to another. But even with covid cases rising as schools head into the final stretch of the academic year, most California districts have not moved toward reinstating mask mandates. That...
by Advize Admin | May 6, 2022 | Healthcare
If the Supreme Court’s conservative majority affirms the leaked decision overturning abortion rights in the U.S., the effects would be sweeping for 40 million women in more than two dozen states where Republican-led legislatures have been eagerly awaiting the...
by Advize Admin | Apr 8, 2022 | Healthcare
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Prescription drug costs for California’s massive Medicaid program were draining the state budget, so in 2019 Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the private sector for help. The new Medicaid drug program debuted this January, with a private company in...
by Advize Admin | Apr 1, 2022 | Community, Healthcare
Patrick Green, a utilities plant operator in Modesto, California, siphons wastewater sludge to be analyzed for evidence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid. Across the country, sewage surveillance has become a crucial public health tool for community-level...
by Advize Admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Healthcare
For some counties and cities that share a public health agency with other local governments, differences over mask mandates, business restrictions, and other covid preventive measures have strained those partnerships. At least two have been pushed past the breaking...
by Advize Admin | Jan 11, 2022 | Healthcare
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s sweeping new program to buy Rx drugs for its nearly 14 million Medicaid patients has alarmed health clinics that say they will lose money and have to cut services. Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged Monday that some clinics, which serve...
by Advize Admin | Dec 17, 2021 | FWA
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — About 1 in 8 Californians who have died of covid lived in a nursing home. They were among the state’s most frail residents: nearly 9,400 mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunts and uncles whom Californians entrusted to a nursing home’s...
by Advize Admin | Jul 23, 2021 | Healthcare
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Getting clean drinking water cost Ignacio Padilla his health insurance. The World War II veteran needed to repay the loan for the water pump installed on his 1-acre property in rural Tulare County, the only source of water to his mobile home. He...
by Advize Admin | Jul 16, 2021 | FWA, Healthcare
The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary. Sutter Health Memorial Medical Center charged $44,914 including an...
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