CAPH Response to Governor's Budget Proposal: Tempered Approach to Managed Care Appropriate.OAKLAND Oakland, city (1990 pop. 372,242), seat of Alameda co., W Calif., on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1852. Together with San Francisco and San Jose, the city comprises the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States. , Calif. -- The California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems is pleased to see that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal today reflects a cautious approach to the expansion of managed care among 500,000 Medi-Cal Medi-Cal is the name of the Medicaid program in the State of California. It is jointly administered by the California State Department of Health Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), operating as a Medical Assistance Program under Title XIX of the beneficiaries who are seniors or disabled. "Expanding managed care to this population is an enormous undertaking that, if done, must be done right," said Melissa Stafford Jones, CAPH CAPH California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems CAPH Colt Autoloading Pistol, Hammerless CAPH Committee on the Application of Polarized Headlights CAPH Conventions for the Application of Hytime President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "That means putting the proper amount of time and thought into planning the transition and protecting the affected patients, who are among the most vulnerable people in our state." Today, many of these patients seek care at California's 23 public hospitals. Approximately 80 percent of the Seniors and Persons with Disabilities (SPD (Serial Presence Detect) The method used by DIMM memory modules to communicate their capacity and features to the computer. Data such as manufacturer, size, speed, voltage and row and column addresses are stored in an EEPROM chip on the module. ) are disabled patients. Many of them suffer from complex conditions and multiple diagnoses, including a combination of mental and physical illnesses. The State's decision to step back from imposing mandatory managed care by January 2007, to first develop standards for health plan and provider performance, is a positive one. "A new delivery system should preserve patients' access to their providers and all the services they need," Stafford Jones said. "Public hospitals treat these patients, and we want to make sure the new system is designed to improve quality of care, not present new obstacles." Since the Governor first announced in 2004 his intention to expand managed care, CAPH has joined with other hospitals, consumer groups, disabled advocates and the legislature to urge a full evaluation of the impact on the patients and the health care safety net before embarking on such a drastic restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). of the state's health care system. "We need to make sure that any further expansion of managed care is good for the patients and the health care safety net," Stafford Jones said. CAPH, a non-profit trade association, has represented the state's public hospitals through policy and advocacy work, member service and public education since 1983. |
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