Author: Kalup Alexander

We're more than a month out from the Nov. 15 launch of Nevada Health Link 2.0. Still, given the first go-round's disastrous results, it's worth looking in now on how advance prep work is going for the new rollout.

Fall is enrollment season for many people who get insurance through their workplace.

With an improving fiscal climate, many states are increasing benefits for Medicaid recipients and paying their providers more.

Nurses in California and other areas of the country say they have not been properly trained or provided with appropriate equipment to deal with Ebola cases, KTVU reports.

California residents accumulated the third-highest amount of medical debt in the U.S. last year, according to a recent study by NerdWallet, Payers & Providers reports.

Californians, especially those in Los Angeles County, endure longer waits in hospital emergency rooms than most Americans.

The Medicare "Part B" premium that most older people pay for outpatient care will stay the same in 2015 — $104.90 a month.

In an effort to slow health care spending, more employers are looking at capping what they pay for certain procedures — like joint replacements — and requiring insured workers who choose hospitals or medical facilities that exceed the cap to pay the difference themselves.

When the new health insurance exchanges opened for business one year ago, whether they would succeed was a matter of fervent debate.

California's health insurance exchange has awarded $184 million in contracts without the competitive bidding and oversight that is standard practice across state government, including deals that sent millions of dollars to a firm whose employees have long-standing ties to the agency's executive director.