When Gloria Kopp got fed up with diet after diet that just didn’t work, she took the advice of a friend who’d slimmed down with a commercial diet plan called the Medi-Weightloss Program. This weight ...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in earnest, low-income Californians who enrolled in Medi-Cal — California’s version of the government-funded Medicaid health insurance program — have been able to ...

Medi-Cal is undergoing major changes. For Black Californians, these shifts bring both opportunities and challenges.

Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as many people as ...

Starting April 1, Californians who depend on Medi-Cal — the state’s Medicaid health care program — for their health care expenses will need to once again go through a redetermination process to renew ...

California residents became eligible this year for Medi-Cal regardless of age and immigration status, as long as they meet the income eligibility limitations. This latest expansion welcomed 26- to ...

Dr. Juan Montes, whose medical clinics treat many Medi-Cal enrollees, takes the blood pressure of a patient in his Whittier office in 2017. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times ) For the record: 12:25 p.m ...

Medical assistants Grace Martinez, left, and Mary Rodriguez, go over data at Mendota’s United Health Center, April 28, 2021. JOHN WALKER [email protected] California residents became eligible this ...

12:25 p.m. March 31, 2023: A previous version of this story stated that Medi-Cal enrollees would be mailed a four-page form to redetermine their eligibility, and it linked to a form online that is no ...