Under federal rules taking effect Thursday, health care organizations must give patients unfettered access to their full health records in digital format.

Legislation signed by Governor Gavin Newsom last week requires employers to make pay scales available to job applicants and employees and expands California’s pay data reporting requirements.

After a precipitous drop over the past two months, California’s COVID-19 trends have hit a plateau. The state reported an average of 3,336 cases a day as of Thursday, only a 5% decrease from the previous week’s numbers, according to health department data.

California doctors will soon be subject to disciplinary action if they give their patients information about COVID-19 that they know to be false or misleading.

Administrative spending makes up 15% to 30% of all U.S. medical spending—multiple times as much as other comparable countries—and “at least half” of that spending “does not contribute to health outcomes in any discernable way,” according to estimates cited in a new Health Affairs research brief. So-called wasteful administrative spending is estimated to comprise 7.5% to ...

Don’t be surprised if you spend more time this year picking health-care benefits during open enrollment season. Between rising inflation, policy-specific changes and employees wanting more health-care services, many people won’t be clicking the exact same boxes as last year. Last year during open enrollment — generally in the October and November timeframe — people ...