Health Care
How will Trump change health care? California braces for fights over insurance and abortion
California laws governing health insurance, access to abortion and health care for undocumented immigrants could be contested during a second Trump administration.
Covered California starts offering health care to DACA immigrants. Will Trump’s win deter them?
California immigrants with DACA status are newly eligible to buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act. Donald Trump's election creates uncertainty about the future of the program.
Here are new guidelines for preventing stroke, the nation’s 4th biggest killer
Here are the updated guidelines from the American Stroke Association, their first in 10 years.
Addicts came to Southern California from afar to get sober but wound up dead
Columnist Teri Sforza writes that a treatment empire keeps going, even as state regulators accuse operators of endangering patients. The operator fights back.
California voters give Medi-Cal doctors a raise by passing Prop. 35
California's health care industry mostly united behind Proposition 35, which would bolster Medi-Cal by dedicating money for it from a tax on health insurance plans.
Bay Area counties implement mask mandates for health care facilities
Mandates are aimed at preventing spread of respiratory illness.
California families battling addiction fight for their lives after insurance denials
California requires insurers to cover medically necessary mental health treatment. But to patients, the separation between what that law requires and what health plans provide often feels like a gaping chasm.
Denied coverage for mental health treatment? Here’s what you can do
Government agencies can overrule an insurance company's denial of coverage for a medically necessary mental health treatment, but figuring out how to appeal can be complicated.