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The deal, hammered out behind closed doors between Kaiser Permanente and senior officials in Newsom’ s office, could complicate a long-planned and expensive transformation of Medi-Cal, the state’ s Medicaid program, which covers roughly 14 million low-income Californians. It has infuriated executives of other managed-care insurance plans in Medi-Cal, who...

The deal, hammered out behind closed doors between Kaiser Permanente and senior officials in Newsom’s office, could complicate a long-planned and expensive transformation of Medi-Cal.

The backroom deal with politically connected Kaiser Permanente, which infuriated other Medi-Cal health plans, allows the health care giant to continue selecting the enrollees it wants.

The deal, hammered out behind closed doors between Kaiser Permanente and senior officials in Newsom’s office, could complicate a long-planned and expensive transformation of Medi-Cal.

The deal, hammered out behind closed doors between Kaiser Permanente and senior officials in Newsom’s office, could complicate a long-planned and expensive transformation of Medi-Cal.

The backroom deal with politically connected Kaiser Permanente, which infuriated other Medi-Cal health plans, allows the health care giant to continue selecting the enrollees it wants.

Executives of other managed-care insurance plans in Medi-Cal say they stand to lose hundreds of thousands of patients and millions of dollars a year

The deal, hammered out behind closed doors between Kaiser Permanente and senior officials in Newsom’s office, could complicate a long-planned and expensive transformation of Medi-Cal.

The backroom deal with politically connected Kaiser Permanente, which infuriated other Medi-Cal health plans, allows the health care giant to continue selecting the enrollees it wants.

A legislative deadline means a key single-payer measure must clear the Assembly floor today.