Times of San Diego

California’s Medi-Cal Shortfall Hits $6.2 Billion With ‘Unprecedented’ Cost Increases

Elvia Macedo, a Medi-Cal patient, gets a check-up with Dr. Oscar Casillas at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles on July 26, 2022. (File photo by Pablo Unzueta/For CalMatters) The ...
Fox News

Lawmakers reveal whether Americans should pick up the Medicaid tab for illegal immigrants

California has a $6.2 billion budget deficit for Medicaid services, and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's latest budget proposal projects the state will spend a staggering $8.4 billion to cover Medi-Cal, ...
Sacramento Bee

Gavin Newsom’s team asks for billions more to support Medi-Cal program

Gov. Gavin Newsom releases his revised $288 billion budget proposal to address a $28 billion deficit on Friday, May 10, 2024. Hector Amezcua [email protected] Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has ...
Santa Barbara Independent

California’s Medi-Cal Shortfall Hits $6.2 Billion with ‘Unprecedented’ Cost Increases

The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. The hole in California’s Medi-Cal budget seems to be bigger ...
KPBS

California’s Medi-Cal shortfall hits $6.2 billion with ‘unprecedented’ cost increases

That’s on top of a $3.4 billion loan that the administration told lawmakers last week it needed to make “critical” payments for Medi-Cal, the state-federal health insurance program for low-income ...