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Article: Medi-Cal patients adjusting to managed care system.(Health Care: Private Intervention)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 26, 1997
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Never mind educating L.A.'s Medi-Cal recipients on the intricacies of managed care, Just teaching them how to make and keep doctor's appointments is enough of a challenge.
L.A. County officials are discovering as much as they move the county's Medi-Cal population from the traditional fee-for-service care into two, more cost-efficient managed care plans.
One of those plans will be run by Foundation Health Systems of Rancho Cordova, Calif., and the other is being run by L.A. Care Health Plan, a state-mandated health maintenance organization set up in 1995 to handle Medi-Cal patients.
All parties involved - as well as the state - are implementing ...