Originally published by HealthCanal.com - learn more about a clinical trial aiming to assess the clinical effectiveness of urological tests in men.

54% of Calif. Doctors Accepted New Medicaid Patients in 2013 About 54% of physicians in California said they were accepting new Medicaid patients in 2013 — the second-lowest rate among all U.S. states, according to a new CDC report, the Newark Star-Ledger reports (Livio, Newark Star-Ledger, 3/31). For the report — conducted between February 2013… Continue reading California Doctors Accepted New Medicaid

Network squeeze: Controversies continue over narrow health plans “Many patients are simply accepting pure cash pricing for procedures—as if they had no insurance coverage at all—because it is cheaper than if they were to stick with their narrow-network options.” Los Angeles colorectal surgeon Dr. Allen Kamrava regularly faces financial challenges related to narrow-network health plans.… Continue reading Controversies Continue Over Narrow Health Plans

A new interactive tool on the Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker allows users to analyze the most up-to-date data on U.S. health spending, then build, display and share the charts they create. Developed by analysts at the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Health Spending Explorer helps users examine five decades worth of numbers documenting expenditures by federal and local… Continue reading New Interactive Tool Allows Users to Explore Trends in US Health Spending and Share Custom-Made Charts

Calculating the effect that Aurora’s Oz has had on the community can be slippery.

By the San Jose Mercury News A fleet of autonomous mobile robots programmed to transport items such as meals, medications, linens and lab specimens will begin operating around the clock Sunday when the new University of California at San Francisco’s Medical Center at Mission Bay opens to the public. The robots, which resemble small, self-guided… Continue reading World’s Largest Fleet of Automated Robots to Deploy at UCSF Mission Bay Medical Center

By David Gorn for California Healthline Sacramento Bureau Nadereh Pourat, director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, gives an involuntary gasp when she’s asked where California’s health care system would be without the reforms and changes of the past five years. “It’s not fathomable,” Pourat said. “I don’t know where we… Continue reading Five Years of California Health Reform: ‘A Tremendous Designed Experiment’

In this webinar, we introduce the Shield HealthCare community of OstomyLife with Laura Cox, and Laura talks tips for how to care for your stoma.

For The Lawndale News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Medical Association (AMA) are on a mission to prevent type 2 diabetes in patients who are at risk of developing the chronic condition, MegPage Today reports. Their new joint initiative is called Prevent Diabetes STAT—short for Screen, Test, Act, Today—and… Continue reading Major Focus of New Health Campaign Targets Prediabetes

By David Gorn for California Healthline State officials are in the midst of dropping a large number of Medi-Cal beneficiaries. It’s the Medi-Cal renewal process — every year, beneficiaries are required to re-enroll to continue receiving the benefit. This year, that process potentially could result in millions of beneficiaries exiting the program. Last week the Department… Continue reading One Million Medi-Cal Renewals Up Every Month, Termination Data ‘Not Available’