HMO project aims to improve care for chronically ill

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded 17 grants to health maintenance organizations (HMOs) studying ways to administer better care for chronically ill patients. Preliminary results from the $5.6 mil project, entitled Chronic Care Initiatives in HMOs, are expected as early as 1997. Innovative care systems from Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, the University of Minnesota and Henry Ford Health System have received grants.

Care and treatment, Research, Donations, Chronically ill, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Troublesome transition: Los Angeles struggles despite HMO experience

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Federal officials stopped the mandatory enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries in Los Angeles, CA's LA Care Health Plan just two weeks following plan's Apr 1997 launch. The Health Care Financing Administration charged that California had not sufficiently explained the plan to beneficiaries and that plan start-up delays had limited beneficiaries' choices. The plan is expected to be the US largest Medicaid HMO.

Social policy, California, Los Angeles, California

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Exit of three Medicaid HMOs concerns Arizona officials

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Three HMOs have withdrawn from the Arizona Medicaid managed care program in 1997, and the state's cost-cutting measures are blamed for the departures. Regional Service Corp. dropped out of the program in May 1997, and Foundation Health Systems left in June. Complaining of losses of $1 million, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona plans to quit the Medicaid program at the end of Sep 1997.

Health Programs-State, Arizona, Health policy, Health Net Inc. (Shelton, Connecticut), Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, Regional Service Corp.

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