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Fragile, Rural Population to Be Moved Into Medi-Cal Managed Care
Next month, state health officials will launch a transition of rural Medi-Cal beneficiaries into Medi-Cal managed care health plans. The transition involves about 20,000 of the most frail and elderly segment of the rural Medi-Cal population.
Next month, state health officials will launch a transition of rural Medi-Cal beneficiaries into Medi-Cal managed care health plans. The transition involves about 20,000 of the most frail and elderly segment of the rural Medi-Cal population—seniors and persons with disabilities.
"Most of them have a disability or high levels of functional impairment," said Carrie Graham, assistant director of research at the University of California, Berkeley's Health Research for Action. "They have multiple chronic conditions, they need a lot of specialty care, they have a lot of prescriptions, they need medical equipment and supplies."
They're people who are on a precarious medical ledge—poor people with big medical needs, no Medicare benefits, and a whisper-thin web of cobbled-together providers and services. It's the type of population that has a hard time with transitions, Ms Graham said.
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Source: California Healthline
Laundromats as a New Frontier in Community Health, Medicaid Outreach
May 29th 2025Lindsey Leininger, PhD, and Allister Chang, MPA, highlight the potential of laundromats as accessible, community-based settings to support Medicaid outreach, foster trust, and connect families with essential health and social services.
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New Research Challenges Assumptions About Hospital-Physician Integration, Medicare Patient Mix
April 22nd 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Brady Post, PhD, lead author of a study published in the April 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, challenges the claim that hospital-employed physicians serve a more complex patient mix.
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