“We are very pleased that the California Department of State Hospitals selected our zero-emission, all-electric vehicles to move medical materials and transport cargo,” said Tim Reeser, CEO,Lightning Systems. “This is a very challenging time for all hospitals, and we send a...
12 California Hospitals Fined by State Health OfficialsSeipel, Tracy
CBS News California has identified a spike in the number of "sexually violent predators" who are being granted conditional release by the Department of State Hospitals amid an ongoing struggle to find appropriate housing for the men. The original reporting prompted several proposed changes to state...
From 2016 through 2019, the California Department of Health Care Services used the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services §1115 waiver process to incentivize public hospitals to address overuse of cesarean delivery. Beginning in 2016, Covered California (the state health insurance exchange) encou...
have finally caught a break. The California Department of Health's decision to authorize healthcare IT firm MEDHOST as having a Health Information Exchange (HIE) gives the Golden State's hospitals a powerful new ally for public health data reporting, as mandated by the Centers for Medicare & ...
failure to explain a huge jump in the fee request for a six-month period, use of an excessive hourly rate, and unreasonable work efforts all coalesced to lead to a substantially reduced fee award, one affirmed inHowell v. Dept. of State Hospitals, Case No. A168526 (1stDist., Div. 2 ...
This page tracks the latest available data onCOVID-19hospitalizations, cases, deaths, variants and vaccinations from the California Department of Public Health. The most recent case and deaths counts are artificially low because of lags in reporting time. ...
Hospitals are carefully weighing which surgeries can be delayed, executives say. A cataract surgery or knee replacement might be canceled, for example, but not heart surgery or a breast cancer biopsy. In response to the shortages, the state health department on Saturday issued controve...
billing Medi-Cal for community health care services, few hospitals have negotiated that benefit with Medi-Cal's health plans. David Simon, a spokesperson for the California Hospital Association, said the service is new and that the state has yet to provide guidance on how to bill health plans...
Eureka, in the northern reaches of the state, has just two hospitals with labor and delivery units within 100 miles, the California Attorney General’s Office said. Mad River Community Hospital, which provided Nusslock’s procedure, said it will close its labor and delivery unit this month, ...