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Fed up with high prices, California weighs penalties against hospitals, other entities
1+ hour, 39+ min 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…...
Ailing MLK Hospital to receive $25 million grant from Kaiser Permanente
1+ week, 4+ day 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…...
Catalina Island’s only hospital fights for its future amid dire financial outlook
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1432+ words) The Saturday morning calm at Catalina Island Health’s two-bed emergency room was broken just before noon, when two tourists with arm injuries burst in within minutes of one another. Praveen Biln, the registered nurse on duty in the ER, kicked…...
California Has An Insurance Crisis. Senator Ben Allen Says He Has A Plan To Fix It.
2+ week, 4+ day ago (35+ words) Los Angeles Times California Has An Insurance Crisis. Senator Ben Allen Says He Has A Plan To Fix It....
Unhappy with Kaiser’s medical dispute process, some patients push for state reform
1+ mon, 4+ day 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…...
California employer health premiums will cost as much as a new car in 2027
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1302+ words) Employers are bracing for what could be the highest rise in health insurance premiums in 16 years in 2027, driving up the average cost of family coverage in California to more than $30,000 — the price of a new compact car. Health insurance companies…...
Contributor: Why healthcare is so expensive in America, and what to do about it
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (908+ words) America’s healthcare system consistently ranks as the most expensive in the developed world. It’s not, as some politicians claim, expensive because markets have failed. It’s expensive because the market has been repeatedly blocked from succeeding. Until we’re honest about that,…...
Letters to the Editor: Operation to halt Medicare fraud had some unfortunate side effects
1+ mon, 1+ week 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 (âMedicareâs new approach to…...
Contributor: Medicare's new approach to halting fraud is paying off
1+ mon, 2+ week 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…...
Millions drop Affordable Care Act coverage after subsidies expired and costs rise
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (298+ words) NEW YORK — About 3 million fewer people in the United States had Affordable Care Act health insurance plans in February compared with the same time last year, according to new federal data. “We know that real people lost their health insurance…...