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Article: State's 'managed care' plans for Medi-Cal sound hospitals' sirens. (California's plan to use managed care plans for Medi-Cal patients) (Special Report: Health Care)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- February 15, 1993
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The State of California's massive effort to reduce health care costs and improve service to the state's indigent population by shifting Medi-Cal patients into "managed care" has many L.A. County health care providers in a frenzy.
Not only is the state's timetable unreasonably fast, said local health care officials, but the shift to "managed care" -- health care provided in exchange for set monthly fees, per patient -- could seriously cut funding to local hospitals, doctors and other providers who bill Medi-Cal.
L.A. County has 1.5 million Medi-Cal patients, 33 percent of the state's total, and hospitals receive billions of dollars in government funds to take ...