By Christina Jewett, California Watch
As California continues to forge ahead implementing health reform, state Medi-Cal leaders and UC Davis researchers announced an agreement to examine public health system transformation efforts that may serve as models for the nation.
The researchers will evaluate public hospital systems as they revamp daily operations in ways meant to simultaneously reduce health costs and improve patient health.
New programs are taking shape under California’s Medi-Cal “waiver,” a $10 billion program that is part of the state’s effort to prepare for a major influx of beneficiaries who will be covered when the Affordable Care Act expands eligibility in 2014.
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