Nearly 1.5 million Californians risk losing Medi-Cal under HR 1. State funding is needed now to rebuild county indigent care.

Months into a criminal investigation of Contra Costa Health by the California Department of Justice for possible Medi-Cal fraud and elder abuse, the East Bay public health care system has announced ...

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom releases his May budget proposal today. Groups that fight for pro-child policies want California ...

Enrollment in the Medi-Cal insurance program is falling in Ventura County and the decline is expected to continue.

Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as many people as ...

The grants include $11.3 million in the current fiscal year. The grants are being announced as Medi-Cal plans prepare for budget challenges. An Oxnard-area clinic, a mental health initiative, cancer ...

The reconciliation package now being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives will reform Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid, the state-run safety-net health insurance program for the ...

Faced with the increasing possibility of significant Medicaid cuts, San Diego County supervisors did not back away from further mental health care investments Tuesday, approving requests for ...

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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Friday that the state is partnering with nonprofit Baby2Baby to provide new parents with 400 ...

Nearly 100,000 undocumented immigrants disenrolled from Medi-Cal between June and December last year, accounting for a quarter of disenrollments in that period. Trump administration policies, ...