managed care
In less than a year, roughly 1 million poor California residents will find themselves insured as part of Obamacare’s Medi-Cal expansion. While the insured patient pool will have grown, what about the physician pool? Will there be enough doctors to serve this new population? While state officials insist the provider pool is sufficient, doctors and advocates across California fear the answer is no.
CHCF Center for Health Reporting | August 6, 2012
California is pushing hard to place its poorest residents into managed care. But legislators balked at the Gov. Brown’s most recent attempt to save the state money. Citing Sacramento County’s poor-performing Medi-Cal dental managed care plan for children, they refused to place Healthy Families kids in a managed care plan.
CHCF Center for Health Reporting | June 27, 2012
If signed by the Governor, a bill passed by the Legislature would offer some Sacramento County low-income children a choice in dental care.
CHCF Center for Health Reporting | March 23, 2012
The Legislature took its first formal step Thursday to free Sacramento County's poor children from the confines of mandatory managed dental care. A Senate committee unanimously approved a proposal by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, to give Sacramento County children on Medi-Cal a choice for their dental coverage.
This story originally appeared in The Sacramento Bee.
Even the experts are confused.
At two public hearings this week to discuss problems with Sacramento County’s dental care program for poor kids, not all the expert witnesses agreed on which California counties provide Medi-Cal dental services via managed care.
CHCF Center for Health Reporting | March 13, 2012
Seeking to break managed care’s monopoly on dental care for Sacramento County’s poor children, state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg plans to introduce legislation to allow more choice in who kids can see, his aide told the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
This story originally appeared in The Sacramento Bee.
CHCF Center for Health Reporting | March 8, 2012
Political opposition to Sacramento County’s managed care dental program for poor children is mounting, as state government officials promise new accountability and a wide range of politicians call for quick action to protect the kids.
This story originally appeared in The Sacramento Bee.
Perhaps the bureaucrats who run the state's Medi-Cal dental program would move more quickly to improve dental service for Sacramento kids if it were their own children waiting for months for their cavities, broken teeth and abscessed molars to be treated.
The political back-and-forth over Sacramento County’s failing Denti-Cal program is heating up.
Senate President Pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, on Monday called on the state’s Medi-Cal chief to take immediate action to improve dental care for more than 110,000 Sacramento County children.
This story originally appeared in The Sacramento Bee.
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