He called health care a right, not a privilege, and asserted its importance. “If you can’t access the high-quality care, you’re out of the game. You’re completely disenfranchised,” he said.

Gender-affirming care for transgender youth under standards widely used in the U.S. includes developing a plan with medical experts and family members that includes supportive talk therapy and can ...

Orange County officials celebrated this week the grand opening of the OC Health Care Agency’s new Irvine campus, designed to bring several HCA departments under one roof. The $78 million ...

Starting Monday, nurses and other health care providers at Children’s National Hospital in D.C. will have access to “Hair for You,” a program that trains nurses to competently care for the ...

O.C. Health Care Agency is closing several of its clinics, which provide health services across county communities, due to federal funding cuts.

Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.

This Forefront article summarizes the current state of policy issues relevant to advancing accountable care in the safety net and recent changes introduced by CMS in their 2024 Medicaid Managed ...

WASHINGTON — A small government agency responsible for putting medical products and services to practical use and making health care safe is feared to be the latest target for mass layoffs by ...

You must need intermittent skilled nursing care, physical, speech or occupational therapy. The home health agency must be Medicare-certified. (If not Medicare-certified, then you pay 100 percent ...

Health Net has seen an increase of nearly 200% in calls to its claims call center, and almost 160% in calls to its web support call center in the first few working days of 2025, compared to the ...

L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation’s largest publicly operated health insurer, has tapped former Health Net executive Martha Santana-Chin as its next chief executive.

The much-lauded “Be Well” partnership between Orange County and the nonprofit Mind OC to provide mental health and substance abuse services for the poor appears to be collapsing. The Orange County ...