More than 85,000 of California’s most vulnerable low-income residents, including those who are homeless and have been recently incarcerated, are now enrolled in a pilot project designed to link health care to social services.
Twenty-five counties and the city of Sacramento are participating in the Whole Person Care project, a $3 billion initiative funded by the state and the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The five-year project, which began in late 2016, is an experiment to find alternatives to fee-for-service care, a system where the government pays medical providers for treating low-income residents.
[For more on this story by Ron Shinkman, go to http://www.calhealthreport.org...for-most-vulnerable/]
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