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It's one reason he's proposed for backing out of the deal to pay doctors more for treating Medicaid patients, saying the money is better spent to make sure California doesn't have to cut benefits ...
The previous owners had not accepted patients on Medicaid, which covers roughly a third of California's 39 million residents. Just five months later, Morgan said, he had to stop treating Medicaid ...
In the past week, 2,302 patients were admitted to the hospital in California due to the coronavirus, and 2% of deaths were COVID-19-related, said health officials said in its weekly respiratory ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom last year agreed to a tax increase that aimed to do two things: Help balance a budget with a multibillion-dollar shortfall, and pay doctors more money to treat patients covered by Medicaid — the taxpayer-funded health insurance program for people with low incomes that now covers one out of every three people in the state.
Some had started to run out of beds, along with having shortages of nurses and doctors. By November 2020, with 13 million cases so far, hospitals throughout the country had been overwhelmed with record numbers of COVID-19 patients. Nursing students had to fill in on an emergency basis, and field hospitals were set up to handle the overflow.
The California Medical Assistance Program (Medi-Cal or MediCal) is the California implementation of the federal Medicaid program serving low-income individuals, including families, seniors, persons with disabilities, children in foster care, pregnant women, and childless adults with incomes below 138% of federal poverty level.
On April 22, Newsom ordered a review on autopsies of people who died in December 2019 in order to find out when COVID-19 arrived in California. [ 56 ] On April 24, Newsom announced a program that will deliver free meals to elderly residents who meet the program's requirements.
Prop. 35 is the most expensive measure before voters, a health care industry-funded proposal claiming to strengthen Medi-Cal.