California and Massachusetts are teaching immigrants their rights while Florida and Texas are collecting patients’ immigration status. As states offer differing guidelines for interacting with ...

Enhanced federal subsidies and more state aid for out-of-pocket costs have made health insurance purchased through California ...

Catastrophic wildfires are common in California, and mental health specialists have become a key part of local governments’ ...

Birth centers, where midwives deliver babies with emergency backup from hospitals, can offer an alternative for families as ...

California has a few major changes coming to its health policy landscape in 2025. New laws that took effect Jan. 1 ban ...

Thousands Evacuate As Fire Tears Through Southern California: Gregg Champion was trying to reach his Pacific Palisades business Tuesday when he was met with flames so intense he could feel their heat ...

Patients are evacuated from the Brighton Care Center during the Eaton Fire in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 8. (Josh ...

Daniel Chang, Florida correspondent, covers Florida and the South. He joined KFF Health News in 2022 after 22 years at the Miami Herald, where his health care reporting focused on access to care for ...

Despite the hype over artificial intelligence in medicine, the systems require consistent monitoring and staffing to put in place and maintain. Checking whether an algorithm has developed the software ...

Many older adults living alone, isolated and vulnerable, struggle with health issues. But a noteworthy slice of this growing group of seniors maintain a high degree of well-being. Meet Hilda Jaffe, ...

“Certificate of need” laws, largely supported by the hospital industry, limit health facility construction in 35 states and Washington, D.C. Georgia lawmakers decided its law was complicating the ...