As of Jan. 1, birth doulas are eligible for a $3,500 payment per delivery, the highest Medicaid reimbursement for doulas in ...

This is the fifth in a series of stories in the lead-up to President Donald Trump’s inauguration aimed at exploring how a second Trump administration could impact SLO County, with coverage spanning ...

Sacramento nonprofits can now help housing-insecure Californians whose health is deteriorating with funding a move into ...

Gov. Newsom in 2020 signed a law allowing California to manufacture its own insulin, an effort to bring down the cost of the ...

In California, hospitals that complied with the price transparency rule included French Hospital Medical Center in San Luis ...

Here's a full picture of the biggest finance issues affecting states in 2025. After a period of rapid growth, overall state spending was flat last year. Heading into 2025, budgets are mostly in good ...

Federal regulators should nursing home staffing to the metrics they use to rate facilities for consumers, researchers ...

A study led by the University of California, Irvine has revealed the significant impact of staffing instability on nursing home quality across the country, as reflected in the Five-Star Quality Rating ...

The public health emergency was put in place retroactive to Tuesday, enabling these measures under federal law.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday declared a public health emergency for California to address ...

Some health systems are hesitant to invest in programs that provide hospital-level care at home without a long-term extension ...