A federal judge has named a receiver to run California’s troubled prison mental health system. Colette Peters, a reformist ...

Fewer People Living Unsheltered In LA County: Unsheltered homelessness declined for a second consecutive year across most of Los Angeles County last year, homeless officials reported Wednesday. A ...

Enrollment of underrepresented groups at medical schools fell precipitously this academic year after the Supreme Court’s 2023 ...

Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, borrowed $3.4 billion from the state — and will likely need even more — due to ...

When patients walked into Planned Parenthood clinics, a consumer data company sold their precise locations to anti-abortion ...

Hospital-based violence intervention programs have operated in the U.S. since the mid-1990s. The public health approach to ...

Kirk Vartan pays more than $2,000 a month for a high-deductible health insurance plan from Blue Shield on Covered California, ...

Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is the state’s health insurance program for Californians with low incomes, including children, people with disabilities, and seniors. Get the latest data on ...

Republicans’ moves to scale back Medicaid are leading to more misinformation about immigrants, especially Latinos, circulating on social media platforms. The misconceptions include the myths that ...

KFF Health News correspondent Sam Whitehead discusses Medicaid’s history and role in the U.S. health system.