California stumbles at shifting care for costly patients
on Sab, 2015-01-31 00:00 lisabeth
lifornia's ambitious effort to save billions of dollars by changing how the state's costliest patients get treated is on the ropes.
The Obamacare program was designed to reduce medical costs by putting more of the nation's 11 million most challenging and expensive patients into tightly managed care.
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