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Article: Data dilemmas; Standardization urged for Calif.'s Medi-Cal providers.(Brief Article)
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- June 11, 2001
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Data exchange for California's Medicaid managed-care programs is so complex that it may be difficult to effectively gauge the quality of care provided, according to recently published reports.
The reports were issued by Oakland, Calif.-based Medi-Cal Policy Institute, a not-for-profit organization that monitors Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program. They concluded that data exchange among physicians, health plans and the state Department of Health Services, which oversees Medi-Cal, is hampered by several problems, including:
* Some health plans and providers have a ``limited understanding of the systems they operate and use,'' and the systems themselves ...