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A blonde woman wearing glasses, a white shirt and suit with a lanyard around her neck.

La consulta con tu próximo médico de atención primaria podría ser solo virtual y agendada a través de IA

By Martha Bebinger, WBUR February 10, 2026 KFF Health News Original

La falta de médicos de atención primaria es un problema nacional. Algunas grandes redes de salud están recurriendo a la inteligencia artificial en busca de soluciones.

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Oficiales de salud en California responden rápido a los casos de dengue

By Claudia Boyd-Barrett November 12, 2024 KFF Health News Original

En lo que va del año, las autoridades han identificado al menos 13 casos de dengue de transmisión local, frente a dos en 2023, con 11 en el condado de Los Ángeles y dos en el área de San Diego.

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California’s $12 Billion Medicaid Makeover Banks on Nonprofits’ Buy-In

By Angela Hart May 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California’s Medicaid program is relying heavily on community groups to deliver new social services to vulnerable patients, such as security deposits for homeless people and air purifiers for asthma patients. But many of these nonprofits face staffing and billing challenges and haven’t been able to deliver services effectively.

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Amgen Plows Ahead With Costly, Highly Toxic Cancer Dosing Despite FDA Challenge

By Arthur Allen May 7, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The FDA told Amgen to test whether a quarter-dose of its lung cancer drug worked as well as the amount recommended on the product label. It did and with fewer side effects. But Amgen is sticking to the higher dose — which earns it an additional $180,000 a year per patient.

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Recortes federales pueden afectar a programas en hospitales de prevención de la violencia con armas de fuego

By Stephanie Wolf March 13, 2025 KFF Health News Original

El objetivo de estos programas es identificar los factores sociales y económicos que contribuyeron a que una persona terminara en una sala de emergencias.

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Bold Changes Are in Store for Medi-Cal in 2024, but Will Patients Benefit?

By Bernard J. Wolfson December 22, 2023 KFF Health News Original

California’s Medicaid program is undergoing major changes that could improve health care for residents with low incomes. But they are happening at the same time as several other initiatives that could compete for staff attention and confuse enrollees.

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Trump retira servicios sociales de Medicaid, y pone en peligro la nutrición y la vivienda

By Angela Hart May 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Sin hogar ni alimentos saludables, las personas corren el riesgo de enfermarse más, quedarse sin hogar y experimentar aún más dificultades para controlar afecciones crónicas como la diabetes y las enfermedades cardíacas.

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Décadas de programas nacionales contra el suicidio no han frenado estas muertes

By Cheryl Platzman Weinstock September 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Durante los últimos 20 años, funcionarios federales han lanzado tres estrategias nacionales de prevención del suicidio, incluida una anunciada en abril.

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Mass General Brigham Laying Off Hundreds Of Employees

February 11, 2025 Morning Briefing

The Boston Globe reports that the layoff is the largest in the organization’s history and comes amid financial shortfalls and operational challenges. Also in industry and pharma news: the nurse strike in Oregon, Kaiser Permanente’s earnings boost, AI-prescribed drugs, and more.

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Save Billions or Stick With Humira? Drug Brokers Steer Americans to the Costly Choice

By Arthur Allen September 19, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Thousands of patients with autoimmune diseases who rely on Humira, with a list price of $6,600 a month, could get financial relief from new low-cost rivals. So far, the pharmacy benefit managers that control drug prices in America have not delivered on those savings.

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En California, legisladores presionan para que inspectores de salud locales visiten instalaciones de inmigración

By Vanessa G. Sánchez July 30, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Quieren que observen y documenten las irregularidades que se denuncian con frecuencia: hacinamiento y falta de acceso a cuidado médico y de salud mental.

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Rift Over When to Use N95s Puts Health Workers at Risk Again

By Amy Maxmen December 14, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering fuzzy guidelines on infection control in hospitals, critics say, leaving employers free to cut corners on N95 masks and other protective measures.

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Timely Mental Health Care Is a Key Factor in Strike by Kaiser Permanente Workers

By Bernard J. Wolfson and Zinnia Finn August 24, 2022 KFF Health News Original

A new California law requires timely follow-up appointments for mental health and addiction patients. But striking workers at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California say patients continue to wait up to two months.

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The Disability Tax: Medical Bills Remain Inaccessible for Many Blind Americans

By Lauren Weber and Hannah Recht December 2, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Health insurers and health care systems across the country are violating disability rights laws by sending medical bills that blind and visually impaired people cannot read, a KHN investigation has found. By hindering the ability of blind Americans to know what they owe, some bills get sent to debt collections.

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Thousands Of Kaiser Permanente Health Workers Walk Off Jobs

October 15, 2025 Morning Briefing

In Los Angeles, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, and more marched in a downpour for better pay and staffing. The five-day strike affects workers in several states.

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Un grupo médico atiende a personas que viven en la calle… y gana dinero

By Angela Hart July 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Estos médicos, enfermeros y trabajadores sociales se están desplegando en las calles de Los Ángeles para ofrecer atención médica y servicios sociales a las personas sin hogar: soldados de un nuevo modelo de negocio que está arraigándose en comunidades de toda California.

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Kaiser Permanente To Downsize Headquarters In California

November 21, 2024 Morning Briefing

In other news, federal investigators found evidence that anti-discrimination laws at Cedars-Sinai may not have been followed for Black maternity patients. Also: Texas aims to create dementia research fund; patient care workers strike; and more.

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No-Bid Medicaid Contract for Kaiser Permanente Is Now California Law, but Key Details Are Missing

By Bernard J. Wolfson July 19, 2022 KFF Health News Original

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill last month that authorizes a statewide Medicaid contract for HMO giant Kaiser Permanente. But details still need to be worked out in a memorandum of understanding.

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As a Union Pushes to Cap Hospital CEO Pay, It’s Accused of Playing Politics

By Molly Castle Work August 9, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A union is asking Los Angeles city voters to cap hospital executive pay at the U.S. president’s salary. However, hospitals accuse the union of using the proposal as political leverage, and policy experts question whether the policy, if enacted, would be workable.

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Kaiser Permanente Settles Lawsuits Over Fraud, Data-Sharing Allegations

January 15, 2026 Morning Briefing

Affiliates of the California-based health care provider have agreed to pay $556 million to settle claims that KP bilked Medicare by bumping up diagnoses to reap more reimbursements. Plus: The United States spent $5.28 trillion on health care in 2024, a CMS report shows.

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