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Slightly more than one-half million California residents signed up for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act during the last three months of 2013. During the same period, about 584,000 applicants were declared likely eligible for Medi-Cal coverage, and 630,000 state residents were moved into Medi-Cal from the state’s low-income …

One of the largest makers of generic drugs in the United States will convert its Corona facility into a manufacturing site for oral contraceptives. Actavis, which used to be Watson Pharmaceuticals before it changed its name and moved its corporate headquarters from Corona to New Jersey, announced the change last …

Use of emergency rooms will go up after Medicaid is expanded to cover millions more U.S. residents. A study, published this week in the journal Science, found that emergency room visits went up 40 percent in Oregon in 2008, when some low-income residents in the state gained Medicaid coverage through …

A judge has ordered CVS Pharmacy to pay Riverside County and two other California counties a combined $658,000 in connection with a civil lawsuit. The court order, signed earlier this month by San Diego County Superior Court Judge Lisa Schall, stemmed from a lawsuit that alleged that CVS pharmacists did …

Nearly 21,000 residents of Riverside and San Bernardino counties have started applications for health insurance plans provided by Covered California. An estimated 20,873 applications were started between Oct. 1 and Nov. 30, while nearly 10,000 people from the two-county region have enrolled in health insurance plans, according to a report …

The former chief executive officer of Riverside County Regional Medical Center will receive a $900,657 payment for leaving that position. Doug Bagley will also receive a public pension for his time running the county-owned hospital, which was losing an estimated $1 million a week during his last days on the …