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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 ...
In the past, California has used that kind of surplus to balance its budget. But this time the state has vowed to use part of it to pay doctors more for treating Medicaid patients. How much, and who will get it, will be fully decided this year. The first increases last year went to primary care doctors, maternity care and some mental health ...
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.
The journey to Dr. P.J. Parmar's office was not easy or short for many who sit in his waiting room. While Colorado is just beginning to go through its rolls, a handful of states started the ...
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.
On February 6, 2020, a woman from San Jose, California, became the first COVID-19 death in the U.S., though this was not discovered until April 2020. The case indicated community transmission was happening undetected in the state and the U.S., most likely since December. [8] [9]
Unfortunately, COVID-19 caused patient bedside and family visitation to completely change. [15] Nurses continued to be "a proxy for family and a clinical practitioner" for the patient. [ 15 ] Overtime, the weight of taking care of patients' emotions and life can affect a nurses emotional health too, which ultimately effects what the hospital ...
Officials are urging California to make it easier to transfer hospital patients to places like L.A. County. With hospitals full, Central California pleading to send COVID-19 patients to L.A. Skip ...