California Department of Health Services

There's Something About Pacific Health

Remember the wandering homeless patient we wrote about a few months back who had been shipped from an Orange County hospital to L.A.'s Skid Row and dumped there? Well such incidents have been the subject of a federal investigation initiated in 2006 after the LAPD began looking into reports of hospi ... More >>

Russians, Rockets and the Santa Ana River

A closed weapons plant in the Chino Hills may be leaking hazardous chemicals into the Santa Ana River

Ready to Inhale

Alan Bock says the medical-marijuana war is over, and the good guys won

Will The Feds Come After Tustin Hospitals Next?

All the key swindlers in the homeless patient dumping scheme that sucked hundreds of thousands of dollars from Medicare and Medi-Cal programs in fradulent claims last year have been indicted -- except, that is, for the bad boys in Tustin who were also allegedly involved in the scheme. Last August a ... More >>

Wheel of Misfortune

Advocate for the disabled Charles Monson was also a medical-marijuana patient—until late last month

Bitter Pill

Anti-radiation pills may never be fashionable in California

Roll Player

Charles Monson works the system to help fellow quadriplegics get the high-tech wheelchairs they need

Preventing Care

Proposition 187 still sickens immigrants

Letters

'Rebecca Schoenkopf is a selfish little wimp'

Commie Girl

Imagine Me on a Bus!

Stop us if youve heard this one before . . .

Preemptive Strikes We Like

Free Mammogram Screenings

Jose's Choice

County tells man to leave his wifeor lose his kids

Not a Dunn Deal

State Senator Joe Dunn says hes ready to investigate controversial hospital deal

Fire Water!

Disney to fire off safer fireworks, but perchlorates still taint Anaheim wells

Fire Water!

Disney to fire off safer fireworks, but perchlorates still taint Anaheim wells

Roll out the Schwarzenkegger!

We have a barrel of fees

What a Rush!

A Commie in the Limbaugh Club

Diary of a Mad County

A Commie in the Limbaugh Club

Prescription for Disaster

If San Onofre is so safe, why are federal officials pushing anti-radiation pills on its neighbors?

OC is a Killer County

Have a seat; this could take a while.​Serial killer Rodney Alcala received the death sentence for the third time in as many decades today. Could sentence number three mean he'll be mainlining the state's death-cocktail sometime soon? Hardly.

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: OC Man, 5 Others Convicted of Defrauding Medi-CalComment by DAN18NY: Oh dear look at all those latin namesComment by LOSJETS: Yup,,,,They are latinos alright..............Berly Schartz, 53, of La Mirada, Dante David, 51 of Costa Mesa; Socorro Narciso, 39, of Sacramento; Orlee Lumiguid, ... More >>

Eleanor Santiago, Irvine Doctor Charged in LA with Using Homeless to Bilk Medicare for Millions, Was Already Under Investigation for Giving Out Free Electric Wheelchairs

​Back in late October, headlines were made when Los Angeles authorities arrested a group of doctors for using homeless and mentally ill patients to fraudulently bilk Medicare and Medi-Cal for millions. Little noted locally, though, was that one of the doctors, Eleanor Melo Santiago Arthur, was an ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

​Back in late October, headlines were made when Los Angeles authorities arrested a group of doctors for using homeless and mentally ill patients to fraudulently bilk Medicare and Medi-Cal for millions. Little noted locally, though, was that one of the doctors, Eleanor Melo Santiago Arthur, was an ... More >>

The Abortionist Who Funds Pro-Life Republicans

​Back in late October, headlines were made when Los Angeles authorities arrested a group of doctors for using homeless and mentally ill patients to fraudulently bilk Medicare and Medi-Cal for millions. Little noted locally, though, was that one of the doctors, Eleanor Melo Santiago Arthur, was an ... More >>

Allied Management Group Special Investigation Unit of Santa Ana Accused of Being Sham Health Care Fraud Finders

​Allied Management Group Special Investigation Unit (AMG-SIU) bills itself as "The Total Health Care Fraud, Waste and Abuse Solution." But the Santa Ana fraud finders find themselves at the center of a lawsuit that accuses AMG-SIU of being a "shell company" for corporate greed.

Lydia Delrio Montelongo, LA Airport Cop's Wife, Cops to Falsely Claiming She Was Divorced and Taking $118,000 in Public Assistance

​A Fullerton woman is spending nine months in jail, serving five years of probation and paying $118,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to having received that much in public assistance while falsely claiming she was divorced and not financially supported by her husband, a Los Angeles Airport ... More >>