A 10-year pilot program that's looking for ways to better expand pregnancy-care options for Medi-Cal members is debuting in five Central Valley counties, including Kern. California was one of 15 ...

Innovaccer will support analytics efforts by the state's PopHealth Learning Center to comply with federal quality management ...

Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe is pushing for the county to explore providing medical care to people at risk of getting ...

Health advocates bring mobile Medi-Cal enrollment assistance to rural Kern County communities in November, offering bilingual services ahead of 2026 program changes.

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 ...

California expects to spend 28 times more on health benefits for illegal aliens than on state police in the 2025-2026 budget ...

After the state unwisely expanding Medi-Cal in recent years, the program has descended into a fiscal crisis. Now Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes to roll back some of the expansions, but it may be too ...

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Much of the funding will be used to implement a “multifaceted outreach and education campaign” to ensure the nearly 1 million Orange County residents served by the health plan are ...

Medi-Cal and Medicaid exist to serve our most vulnerable communities. They are lifelines, not opportunities for exploitation,” said Attorney General Bonta. “Let me be clear: Those who defraud these ...