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Many of the 14 million patients in Medi-Cal get their care from subcontractors or sub-subcontractors. For patients with difficult health care needs, it can be hard to know where to turn.
Sarah A. Garza named Vice President of Clinics and Physician Groups for Driscoll Health System
Photo: Cecilie Arcurs/Getty Images Over the past several years, the big trend in healthcare has been to inch away from fee-for-servicereimbursement and toward value-based care, in which a provider's reimbursement is tied more to clinical quality than to volume. The industry, policymakers and the federal government have attempted this shift through a number of legal and regulatory means, and one policy that has proven popular in this regard, among both providers and payers, is direct contracting. In basic terms, direct contracting is a population-based model that allows for the use of capitati...
'We should move to global budgets as soon as possible,' says Donald Berwick
CMS reviewing Georgia’s Obamacare waiver — First in PULSE: Warren wants GIlead CEO to testify on drug prices