LA County braces for crowded hospitals as Medi-Cal expandsMelissa Evans
Medi-Cal while using every exception to your advantage. Some assets are automatically protected, while others can be legally transferred without a long ineligibility period. In some cases, an irrevocable trust may be appropriate to hold title to your residence. We take care to avoid any Medi-...
This expansion in coverage “improves access and member outcomes, reduces hospitalizations and comorbidities, and improves members’ quality of life with better disease management and less finger sticks,” said Ann Carroll, a Medi-Cal spokesperson. The state, she said, wants to ensure all diabetes ...
For nearly a decade, John Baackes has led L.A. Care Health Plan, a publicly run insurer primarily serving low-income Los Angeles County residents on Medi-Cal. It is by far the largest Medi-Cal plan in the state. Baackes, 78, who will retire at the end of the year, h...
Los Angeles Medi-Cal (LA PHP) Dental Managed CareLIBERTY Dental Plan of California, Inc. (LIBERTY) has been providing dental services for the Medi-Cal program in Los Angeles County since 2005 and currently serves approximately 500,000 Medi-Cal members in California....
This bill would require the Department of Justice to comb through its database every month and identify people who are eligible to have their records expunged. They would also be compelled to publish an annual report for each county regarding the total number of arrests granted relief. Since thi...
Introduction: Needle deflection during insertion can, in itself, be a cause of anesthetic failure. Objective: To determine the degree of deflection of 27-gauge and 30-gauge needles using three insertion techniques on a simulated tissue model. Materials and methods: Controlled, experimental in vitro...
Medi-Cal would not pay O’Brien’s bill at Kaiser if there was no possibility of rehabilitation, so within a month he was shipped off again--to Fairmont Hospital in San Leandro, a large county-owned hospital that provided nursing care for quadriplegics. “They had a polio ward and people...
In California, two Medi-Cal HMO programs have been conducted in Santa Barbara and Monterey counties. With debts reaching $11 million, the Monterey HMO program recently was declared bankrupt, leaving some health care providers in the lurch. The county hospital lost $2.5 million and Planned Parentho...
County-USC Medical Center plans to displace 240 families east of its Boyle Heights campus as part of a $1-billion expansion and construction project that will eventually replace the 1930s-era General Hospital. The eight-year project, which is scheduled to begin next year, will consolidate the ...