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Monica Soni, Covered California’s chief medical officer, oversees an effort to hold health plans financially accountable for the quality of care they provide, including childhood vaccination rates, which have fallen in California and nationwide.

In recent months, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has warned of skyrocketing health care costs.

At a town hall in Tustin, angry residents said Congress should keep its hands off Medicaid. A recent Republican proposal would cut it by $880 billion.

One clinic in South L.A. readies it's workers to deal with the possibility of immigration actions.

President Donald Trump's early actions on health care signal his likely intention to wipe away some Biden-era programs.

Catastrophic wildfires are common in California, and mental health specialists have become a key part of local governments’ response to extreme weather events, which scientists say are becoming more intense and frequent due to climate change.

Donald Trump’s second term is reigniting mistrust in health services among California immigrants, making it harder for community health workers to get people enrolled for Medi-Cal.

A growing number of people — many of them older and homeless — are freezing to death during winter.

As Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House with a Republican-controlled Congress, health officials and community advocates in California worry that large-scale Medicaid cuts could be enacted as soon as next year. More than 60% of California’s $161 billion Medi-Cal budget comes from Washington.

State agency set the goal in hopes of improving Californians’ health and reducing the need for costlier care down the road.