By PRNewswire-USNewswire Inland Empire Health Plan – one of the fastest growing not-for-profit Medicare and Medi-Cal health plans in California – is celebrating the enrollment of one million members, marking a new chapter in its 18-year history of serving communities in Riverside and San Bernardino. “We are proud of this milestone,” said Dr. Bradley Gilbert, IEHP chief… Continue reading IEHP Celebrates One Million-Member Milestone

By Henry Powderly, Managing Editor of Healthcare Finance Construction is all but done at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, with a grand opening for the $1.5 billion complex slated for Feb 1, officials said. The complex includes the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, UCSF Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital and UCSF Bakar… Continue reading UCSF to Open $1.5 Billion, Eco-Friendly Medical Complex

By Victoria Colliver for The San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate Manuel Cero can control his most severe seizures with medications, but the 34-year-old Brentwood man still has sporadic seizures despite having tried everything available to stop them. That puts Cero among a third of people with epilepsy. Typically for patients like Cero, their epilepsy originates in more than… Continue reading NeuroPace Implant Zaps Epileptic Seizures

By Jenna Chandler for the Orange County Register Nansea Gratz pulled off her fleece beanie, the kind with little ears, revealing wisps of gray hair on an otherwise bald head. She removed her fuzzy pink socks and asked an attentive massage therapist to touch her feet, because the peripheral nerves there were damaged and weak. Seventeen months… Continue reading Massage for Cancer Patients is a Touch of Care, Controversy

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar for the Associated Press, originally posted on ABC News Primary care doctors caring for low-income patients will face steep fee cuts next year as a temporary program in President Barack Obama’s health care law expires. That could squeeze access just when millions of new patients are gaining Medicaid coverage. A study Wednesday… Continue reading Doctors Face Steep Medicaid Cuts as Fee Boost Ends

By Tracy Seipel for the San Jose Mercury News Twice a day, San Jose insurance agent Ruben Villanueva offers KZSF-AM La Kaliente’s Latino listeners tips about consumer finance and all kinds of insurance. This month, he’s been reminding his Bay Area-wide audience that Californians need to sign up for health coverage by midnight Monday if they… Continue reading California Health Insurance Exchange Aims to Increase Latino Enrollment

The open enrollment period for the state-based health insurance exchanges established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) started in November and will continue through February 15th. But knowing which health care options are available for consumers and their families, let alone which of those is the best, can be… Continue reading Finding the Right Insurance with Help from Consumer Reports

by George Lauer, for California Healthline Marking a significant step in what might be called the “retailization” of health care delivery, Kaiser Permanente is partnering with Target to open medical clinics in the retail stores in Southern California. Three Kaiser clinics opened last week in Target stores in Fontana, San Diego and Vista. Another is… Continue reading Kaiser-Target Partnership Another Step in ‘Retailization’ of Health Care

By Newswise Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Foundation guidelines for heart failure patients. This marks the sixth consecutive year that Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center… Continue reading Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Recognized with Quality Achievement Award for Heart Failure Care

In this article, originally published by Health Canal, learn more about childhood cancer expert Kate Matthay and the work being done at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.