August 25, 2024

A California Medical Group Treats Only Homeless Patients — And Makes Money Doing It [California Healthline]

A California Medical Group Treats Only Homeless Patients — And Makes Money Doing It By Emily Alpert Reyes; Staff Writer August 20, 2024   LOS ANGELES — They distribute GPS devices so they can track their homeless patients. They stock their street kits with glass pipes used to smoke meth, crack, or fentanyl. They keep

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Nearly $1 billion in funds left unspent by centers for disabled Californians [LA Times]

Nearly $1 billion in funds left unspent by centers for disabled Californians By Emily Alpert Reyes; Staff Writer August 20, 2024   Nearly $1 billion allocated for regional agencies that purchase supportive services for Californians with developmental disabilities went unspent in a recent year and was ultimately returned to the state, even as some disabled

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This Company Promised to Improve Health Care in Jails. Dozens of Its Patients Have Died. [The Marshall Project]

This Company Promised to Improve Health Care in Jails. Dozens of Its Patients Have Died. By Cary Aspinwall, Brianna Bailey and Sachi Mcclendon July 30, 2024   NORMAN, Oklahoma — Two days after Thanksgiving in 2022, Shannon Hanchett walked into an AT&T store for a new phone, and ended up in handcuffs.   Hanchett ran

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What Elmo — and his human friends — learned by asking Americans about their mental health [LA Times]

What Elmo — and his human friends — learned by asking Americans about their mental health by Karen Kaplan August 15, 2024   Remember when Elmo went viral in January by asking folks on the Internet how they were doing and briefly became the unofficial therapist of X?   “The world is burning, Elmo,” an

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Key Takeaways from Medi-Cal Redetermination Data [California Health Care Foundation]

Key Takeaways from Medi-Cal Redetermination Data by Amy Adams, Senior Program Officer, Improving Access August 14, 2024   After a roughly three-year hiatus under federal policies designed to help people keep their health coverage during the pandemic, California has returned to requiring enrollees to annually renew their Medi-Cal coverage. California will need to redetermine Medi-Cal

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