As of Oct. 28, 2025, California Healthline’s original reporting shifted to KFF Health News’ new California Bureau. Our original reporting will remain freely ...

The Northeast Valley Health Corp. in Los Angeles County could be a poster child for the benefits of sharing health data electronically. This story also ran on The Orange County Register. It can be ...

California Again Has America's Highest Poverty Rate: California continued to have the highest poverty rate in the nation last year at 17.7%, tied only with Louisiana, according to new data from the ...

SACRAMENTO — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as ...

A guard tower looms over the fence surrounding the California Health Care Facility in Stockton on June 25, 2013. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) SACRAMENTO — California has halted a court-ordered medical parole ...

A health system charged a woman for a shoulder replacement at a hospital across the country that she had not visited for years. She didn’t receive the care, but she did receive the bill — and the ...

Graduates of the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons during Columbia University's commencement convocation on May 17, 2023. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Trump administration’s ...

DENVER — Seven years ago, Erica Green learned through a Facebook post that her brother had been shot. This story also ran on CBS News. It can be republished for free. She rushed to check on him at a ...

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case brought by conservative Christian abortion opponents seeking to revoke FDA approval of mifepristone, a ...

Rosa “Rosita” Flores, a retail line supervisor at Taylor Farms in Salinas, shows the MiSalud app, which connects Spanish-speaking farmworkers with doctors in Mexico. (Victoria Clayton for KFF Health ...

Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, has hit a record 1.8 million enrollees and the number could climb higher ahead of a Jan. 31 open enrollment deadline, due in large part to ...

In March 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about his plan to make insulin available to everyone for $30 a vial. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images) SACRAMENTO — Six ...