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Innovative or ill-conceived?

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California will require 12 counties to implement a two-plan system for Medi-Cal recipients. Under the program, the state selects commercial HMOs for various counties while local officials develop a non-profit health plan. Critics claim the two-plan approach is inefficient since the same doctors and hospitals are included in both networks. The intent of the 2-tier model has been to put millions of California women and children under Medi-Cal, but it has been criticized for being inefficient. Smaller counties have been allowed to drop the 2-tier model, but Los Angeles County, home to one third of the state's Medi-Cal recipients, must still meet the requirement.

Author: Page, Leigh
Publisher: American Medical Association
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1998
Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Programs-State, Management, Social policy, California, Managed care plans (Medical care), Health policy, California. Department of Health Services. Medical Services. Medi-Cal

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Stricter CME monitoring, rules avert federal heat

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The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) is instituting reforms to more closely monitor continuing medical education (CME) in an attempt to avoid threatened federal oversight. The ACCME has appropriated $200,000 annually to cover the costs of the monitoring; this will be supported by a $500 annual fee paid by CME sponsors. The ACCME has also passed several rules covering the role of drug companies in CME.

Author: Page, Leigh
Publisher: American Medical Association
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1992
Pharmaceutical preparations, Standards, Laws, regulations and rules, Pharmaceutical industry, Behavior, Continuing education, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

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