'Covered California' Website Goes Offline For Software Fixes
The Covered California enrollment website continues to experience technical issues and is expected to be offline through this weekend.
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The Covered California enrollment website continues to experience technical issues and is expected to be offline through this weekend.
The enrollment portal has been temporarily taken offline because of software malfunctions that were affecting the consumer experience. Covered California decided to close the enrollment portion of the website early Wednesday afternoon.
There is broad, bipartisan support among California voters for special taxes and warning labels on soda and other sugary beverages, according to a Field Poll Thursday.
California's health care exchange promised potential customers they would have enough physicians to choose from. But some new enrollees, including an Alameda County woman, are discovering that their doctor choices are extremely limited.
A Central Valley meat processing plant that was shuttered by federal inspectors Monday because of unsanitary conditions has reopened.
Doctors are calling a newly-approved drug a " revolution" in treating the most common blood-borne infection in the United States. But patient advocates warn how those who need it may not be able to afford it; and noisy protests from Paris to San Francisco are trying to drive the displeasure over the price into the open.
A newly-discovered mystery bacteria with unknown health effects is being carried by ticks and found in Bay Area parks, according to a Stanford University study.
Bay Area Rapid Transit and East Bay health authorities warned BART passengers on Thursday to seek medical attention if they begin exhibiting any symptoms of measles after authorities learned that an infected and contagious person rode BART in the East Bay last week.
A growing number of people who purchased health insurance through California's state run exchange are complaining that they were misled about the availability of physicians in the network. Some are calling it a bait and switch.
A Northern California state senator is introducing a bill to put warning labels on sodas and other sugary drinks sold in the state.
California's health exchange is more than halfway toward meeting its original projection of 1.3 million sign-ups for individual insurance policies by the March 31 enrollment deadline, according to federal data released Wednesday.
Doctors, the insurance industry, and California's medical establishment are shedding light on why there were so many inaccuracies in the now-removed Physician Directory on the Covered California website.
It's the latest craze in beauty products: A skin cream they say can make you look younger in a matter of weeks. The miracle ingredient…a poisonous plant extract. So where's the proof that it works, or that it's even safe.
After KPIX 5 ConsumerWatch revealed confusion over which physicians are accepting patients under Covered California, some doctors who did not want to accept patients on the exchange said they were surprised to find out they were on the exchange's list of providers.
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland is using a cutting edge, robot-aided surgical procedure by that is less invasive than traditional surgeries and causes less scarring.
