House members in the San Joaquin Valley who voted for the bill defended their decisions, despite projections that some of their constituents will lose coverage.

Health advocates say the bill in several ways will limit health care access in addition to cutting social safety net resources for residents.

Doulas became a service that is covered under Medi-Cal in 2023. Now, families in rural areas are taking advantage.

California lawmakers are poised to delay the state’s much-ballyhooed new law mandating in vitro fertilization insurance coverage for millions, set to take effect July 1. Gov. Newsom has asked lawmakers to push the implementation date to January 2026, leaving patients, insurers, and employers in limbo.

U.S. Attorneys allege Community Health System and a technology company paid “extravagant” benefits, including bonuses, meals and technology discounts, to doctors who referred patients to their facilities.

Gov. Newsom says the deficit is partly due to broad economic uncertainty, including ever-changing federal tariff policies and a volatile stock market.

As Baby Boomers age, more senior citizens and elderly create higher demand for geriatric doctors, and greater reliance on Medicare, Medicaid.

As more people move to – and visit – the San Joaquin Valley, experts say the valley fever case count is likely to keep increasing

Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent practice she founded 27 years ago in Salinas, a predominantly Latino city in an agricultural valley often called “the salad bowl of the world.”

Scientists and public health officials have long tracked the pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other environmental health hazards and shared them with the public through the local Air Quality Index. But the monitoring system misses hundreds of harmful chemicals released in urban fires.