2+ week, 5+ day ago   (893+ words) California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If…...

1+ mon, 9+ hour ago   (492+ words) Healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente said it will give ailing Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital a $25-million grant to help expand its overcrowded emergency department. The move comes as the Willowbrook hospital faces a dire financial picture, as The Times…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (35+ words) Los Angeles Times California Has An Insurance Crisis. Senator Ben Allen Says He Has A Plan To Fix It....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1733+ words) Wilfredo Engalla, a 51-year-old Filipino immigrant, alleged in a medical malpractice case that Kaiser doctors misdiagnosed him with colds and allergies for years before eventually informing him he had terminal lung cancer. He died before his complaint could be heard…...

2+ mon, 14+ hour ago   (243+ words) Los Angeles Times To the editor: The figures presented by Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz and Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer Kim Brandt are impressive, but don't show the full picture (“Medicare’s new approach to…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (951+ words) Last year, we wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was done chasing criminals after we’d already handed them money. We said we were building something different — a prevention-first operation that would detect…...