Hazardous Fire Debris Brought To Different Neighborhood For Sorting: As crews clean up after the Los Angeles wildfires, some city officials and residents are opposing the designation of Lario Park in Irwindale as a site to process hazardous waste. SD County Medical Providers Brace For Immigration Raids: Sharp HealthCare and Scripps Health sent notices to employees Thursday providing guidance ...

Dec 23, 2024 · Street medicine providers and homeless outreach workers who travel into Las Vegas’ drainage tunnels have noticed an uptick in the number of people living underground, and it can be difficult to persuade them to come aboveground for medicine and treatment.

Nov 4, 2024 · Democratic state Assembly member Joaquin Arambula in 2022 proposed legislation to allow the approximately 520,000 uninsured unauthorized residents who earn more than 138% of the federal poverty level to apply for state-subsidized health coverage through Covered California, the state’s health exchange. The bill, however, died in committee this year.

California lawmakers noted that medical debt — unlike other kinds of debt — isn’t an accurate reflection of credit risk, and its inclusion can depress credit scores and make it hard for people to get a job, rent an apartment, or secure a car loan. But California lawmakers have left a glaring loophole. Patients who pay hospital bills using medical credit cards or medical specialty loans ...

Sep 18, 2024 · The Yes on Prop 35 campaign has raised over $48 million as of Sept. 9, according to campaign filings with the secretary of state. The measure would use money from a tax on managed-care health plans mainly to hike the pay of physicians, hospitals, community clinics, and other providers in Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid.

May 5, 2023 · Medi-Cal, the state’s version of the Medicaid health insurance program for low-income residents, has embarked on a 14-month effort to reexamine the eligibility of its nearly 15.8 million members.It is part of the massive “unwinding” being undertaken by all state Medicaid programs after three pandemic years during which their rolls swelled.

Nov 27, 2024 · California’s goal was to help 2,000 seriously mentally ill people by the end of this year, but data shows fewer than 600 petitions have been filed. As the CARE program expands to every county, officials say it sometimes takes months to locate eligible adults and get them in treatment plans.

May 5, 2023 · Attorney General Rob Bonta sent letters to R.J. Reynolds and ITG Brands LLC, dated April 25, warning that the packaging and promotional materials for nine reformulated versions of Camel, Newport, and Kool cigarettes were likely against the law.. California’s ban includes menthol-flavored cigarettes, and the state said it determined after a review that the products are “presumptively ...

Nov 6, 2023 · In California, nearly three-quarters of emergency ground ambulance rides result in out-of-network bills. The average surprise bill for a ground ambulance ride in California is $1,209, the highest in the nation, according to a December study.. The new law, which applies to about 14 million Californians enrolled in state-regulated commercial health plans, limits how much a non-network ambulance ...

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