California’s seven largest HMOs must pay nearly $5 million in fines because of unfair payment practices after an 18-month state investigation revealed widespread underpayments, valued in the tens of millions of dollars, for medical care provided by doc…
State officials today announced nearly $5 million in fines against California’s seven largest health insurers, capping an 18-month investigation into late claim payments and underpayments – amounting to tens of millions of dollars — to thousands of do…
Staff Sgt. Francisco Carrillo Jr. says the things he saw and did in Iraq have left him a broken man, and seven medical specialists agree with him. The Army argues differently.
Staff Sgt. Francisco Carrillo Jr. and wife Casey are trying to overtur…
The child arrived wearing nothing but black boxers, his body frail from the ravages of dehydration. Too weak to walk, the 12-year-old was carried into the clinic in the arms of desperate relatives.
Doctors Dario Gambetta, left, and Guy Guilfoy giv…
It’s another flashpoint in the brewing battle over airport security: medical privacy vs. the war on terrorism.
California’s largest health insurers mostly miss the mark when it comes to meeting national standards of care and customer satisfaction, according to state regulators who issued the latest report card on so-called PPOs on Thursday.
In a glimmer of hope that the economic slump might be easing on hospitals, Sutter Health on Thursday approved $10.8 million for a surgery center in Elk Grove.
An artist’s rendering of the Sutter surgery center in Elk Grove near Laguna and Big Hor…
In the past, people with rare diseases often had far fewer treatment options. The reason was pure economics – supply and demand.
State regulators have imposed an $80,000 fine on a Carmichael nursing home in the death of an elderly woman in 2008.
The cost for employer-sponsored medical coverage rose 6.9 percent this year, much higher than the rate of broader inflation and the sharpest increase since 2004, according to a national survey released Wednesday.
