California Democratic lawmakers are in talks to push a proposed new tax on major corporations such as Amazon and Walmart to ...

A group of patients claims Google’s source code on health care websites collected sensitive health information, which the ...

Indian-origin doctor and businessman, the founder and former CEO of the now-defunct Sovereign Health Group, was recently ...

Navigating mental health and substance use treatment can be overwhelming, especially when trying to understand how insurance coverage fits into the picture. If you or a loved one is dealing with both ...

Proposed $700-$900 billion cuts to Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California) will strain our local health care system and affect us ...

In March, as President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans escalated a nationwide debate over whether to slash health care for poor and disabled Americans, the Democratic governor had to tell ...

California made a huge one-time investment ... It involved allowing K-12 schools and colleges to charge Medi-Cal and private health insurance for behavioral health care provided on campus ...

There is broad consensus among economists and public health experts that large cuts to Medicaid—which House hardliners seem ...

California Representative Kevin Kiley ... confidence that their personal health information (PHI) is private. That is why the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA ...

Since 2014, more than 50 million Americans have signed up for health insurance through state exchanges like Covered California ... health data sent to a private company without their knowledge ...

Experts expressed alarm at the idea that those millions of people could have had sensitive health data sent to a private ... insurance enrollment, for example. In its statement, Covered California ...

A hot potato: Health insurance provider Blue Shield of California is notifying customers that it had been sharing the private health information of up to 4.7 million members with Google's ...