Search: 07/2010

HealthCare.gov is a new consumer website that provides unprecedented transparency into the health care marketplace. Through HealthCare.gov, individuals will have more control over their health care as informed and empowered consumers.

The 90-day anniversary of the signing of the federal health care overhaul has come and gone. While budget matters have stalled in the California Legislature, lawmakers are making progress with legislation to implement the federal health reform.

With many in California's primary care physician community approaching retirement, the Golden State needs a significant increase in providers, particularly doctors who will accept Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, a study released July 16 said. (Physician Participation in Medi-Cal, 2008 CHCF)

With many in California's primary care physician community approaching retirement, the Golden State needs a significant increase in providers, particularly doctors who will accept Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, a study released July 16 said.

 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as national health reform, or, perhaps derisively as ‘Obamacare’, will change the way hospitals are paid. Since hospitals are major employers in the Central Valley and are drivers of local economies, the question is what exactly will the new law mean? The short answer is no one really knows precisely

California could pursue deeper cuts to health care and other services after congressional lawmakers backed off plans to extend $24 billion in Medicaid assistance to cash-strapped states, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Hospitals and physicians are bracing for possible Medi-Cal reductions as the state budget is once again on life support and could remain that way for months.

CHICAGO — Emergency rooms, the only choice for patients who can't find care elsewhere, may grow even more crowded with longer wait times under the nation's new health law.

As the nation prepares to provide care for the increasing proportion of older adults and the widespread implications of healthcare reform, healthcare workers are aging out of the sector, revealing an increased need for skilled workers, according to a new report by the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College.